A still life with apples and a cup, dated 1944 by the Spanish painter Joaquim Peinado, one of the greatest representatives of the "Spanish school of Paris"

A strong and contrasting work, with deep and intense colors in midnight blues and purples warmed by oranges.

Oil on cardboard
Signed and dated 44 upper right
Dimensions: 38 46 cm x
With frame: 55 x 63 cm

Biography

The Spanish cubist painter, Joaquín Ruiz-Peinado Vallejo, known as Joaquín Peinado, was born in Ronda and died in Paris.

In 1915 he entered the Higher School of Commerce in Seville, where he remained until 1918. That same year, he abandoned his business studies to enter the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, where he was a student of Julio Romero de Torres and Cecilio Plá.
In 1923 he traveled to Paris, where he would meet and become friends with Picasso and Luis Buñuel, among other members of the Spanish colony, later called the "Spanish School of Paris". He studied at the Académie Ranson, the Académie Calarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, discovering the cubist painting that would later mark his work.

After participating in various exhibitions, he traveled to Amsterdam in 1926 where he worked on the sets for Manuel de Falla's work El retablo de maese Pedro, directed by his friend Buñuel.
In 1927 he won the painting prize of the Council of Malaga and returned to Spain where he participated as an illustrator in several magazines, such as Litoral de Málaga or La Gaceta Literaria de Madrid. He participated in large collective exhibitions on avant-garde painting: The Exhibition of paintings and sculptures of Spaniards residing in Paris in Madrid and the Regional Exhibition of Modern Art in Granada.

His republican ideas led him to participate, from Paris, in propaganda tasks with the government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. He remained in Paris for almost the entire Second World War, and in 1946 he participated, as a delegate of the Section of Spanish Painters of the School of Paris, in the international exhibition organized by UNESCO and was present, with Francisco Bores, Óscar Domínguez, Ginés Parra, José Palmeiro and Pablo Picasso, at the exhibition held in the National Gallery in Prague entitled "Art of Republican Spain; Artists of the School of Paris".

After traveling and exhibiting in several American countries, he returned to Spain in 1969 where he was appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Telmo de Málaga.

He died in Paris at the age of 76.
Ronda, his hometown, had the Joaquín Peinado Museum built. Peinado's works are preserved in several museums around the world.

Bibliography

• Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers and engravers: from all countries by a group of French and foreign specialist writers, vol. 10, Paris, Gründ,

• Catálogo nacional de arte contemporáneo 1990-1991, Barcelona, ​​Ibérico 2 mil, 1990.

• Cien años de pintura en España y Portugal 1830-1930, t. VII, Madrid, Antiqvaria, 1991.

Museums

• Joaquim Peinado Museum, Ronda

• Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts

• Buenos Aires Museum of Fine Arts

• Goya Museum of Castres

• Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid

• Museum of Fine Arts of Montevideo

• New York University

• Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris