Murcia, Spain, 1910 — Valencia, 2005. He trained in Murcia and in 1928 went to Paris on a scholarship. The avant-garde disappointed him and he turned to the masters in the Prado. In 1932 he joined the Misiones Pedagógicas, and during the Civil War he was the illustrator of «Hora de España». In 1939 he passed through the Saint-Cyprien camp and reached Mexico aboard the «Sinaia». He lived there until 1952 and painted his first «Homages» to the old masters. In 1956 he settled in Rome. He wrote «Velázquez, pájaro solitario» (1969) and received Spain’s National Prize for Plastic Arts (1997) and the Velázquez Prize (2002). In 1990 the museum that bears his name opened in Murcia.
25.5 x 35.5 cm
Pastel on paper
1953