28. José Caballero

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28. José Caballero

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José Caballero was born in Huelva in 1915. An outstanding Spanish painter of the second avant-garde, he began his training at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid with Daniel Vázquez Díaz.

In 1934 he created sets for the theater group La Barraca, created by Federico García Lorca. There he established relationships with artists and intellectuals such as Pablo Neruda, Luis Buñuel, and Maruja Mallo. At the outbreak of the Civil War, many of these artists were forced to flee into exile or to remain in the so-called internal exile, as was the case of José Caballero.

His work moves between figurativism and the abstract, with occasional glimpses of surrealism. In this lithograph a still life appears under the moonlight, whose component parts seem to be expanded, a feature adopted from cubism, as his work was influenced by his relationship with Pablo Picasso.