Madrid, 1910 — Madrid, 1979. He trained with Marceliano Santa María and at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid; he learned stained glass at Casa Maumejean and by 1929 was art director of the Rex advertising agency. In 1934 he won a second medal at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes and in 1935 the Conde de Cartagena scholarship, which took him to London, Paris, Brussels and The Hague.
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During the Civil War he founded «La Gallofa», the visual arts section of the Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas, and his poster work won first prize from the Cámara Oficial del Libro. Interned at Argelès-sur-Mer, he reached Mexico aboard the Sinaia in 1939; he taught drawing, founded a painting school and presided over the Círculo de Bellas Artes de México in 1945. He returned to Madrid in 1960. The Museo del Prado and the Carmen Thyssen in Málaga hold his work.
100 x 80 cm
Oil on canvas
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