28.1 Maruja Mallo

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28.1 Maruja Mallo

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Maruja Mallo was part of the group of surrealist artists and the Generation of 27. She was born in Viveiro (Lugo, Galicia) in 1902. She received her training at the School of Arts and Crafts of Avilés and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. In Madrid, she met artists and intellectuals such as Salvador Dalí, María Zambrano, Federico García Lorca, and Rafael Alberti.

As an artist committed to the Republic, she went into exile in Argentina during the Spanish Civil War. In this engraving there appears a female figure with completely deconstructed features in an indeterminate environment, where influences of her relationship with René Magritte, Max Ernst, and Giorgio de Chirico can be seen.