Timeline

Born in Madrid on 8 May

Joins Eastman Kodak at 13, where he works until the age of 30

Spanish Civil War: volunteers in the Republican army on the Madrid front and makes short films for the government

His play « Tormenta », written in the trenches, is staged at the Teatro de la Zarzuela

Joins the Aragon front as a « Miliciano de la Cultura »

After the defeat, exile in France with the Army of Catalonia; interned for eight months

+3

11 works

Deported to Bremen, he escapes and takes refuge in Paris

+1

9 works

Founds the Spanish art review « Galería » in Paris

2 works

Paints his first canvas at 42, a Last Supper; shows at the Foyer de l'Art Brut

+19

27 works

+12

20 works

+33

41 works

First solo exhibition at the Jeanne Bucher gallery, supported by Henri-Pierre Roché

+32

40 works

+63

71 works

+41

49 works

+51

59 works

« Évolution » exhibition at the Musée d'Art moderne; « École de Paris » at the Galerie Charpentier

+30

38 works

+29

37 works

+74

82 works

+21

29 works

Death of Henri-Pierre Roché, who had acquired 165 of his oil paintings

+33

41 works

Meets Michel Migraine: exhibitions in Le Havre (Galerie Giotto) and Paris (Galerie Mady Bonnard)

+57

65 works

+53

61 works

+45

53 works

+96

104 works

+134

142 works

+115

123 works

+45

53 works

+52

60 works

+48

56 works

Maître Claude Robert sells 110 paintings, watercolours and collages at Drouot

+43

51 works

+83

91 works

+37

45 works

+45

53 works

+57

65 works

+68

76 works

« La porte étroite » exhibition, Galerie Drevet

+120

128 works

+45

53 works

+4

12 works

+21

29 works

« Le sang de l'Espagne » at the Maison d'Espagne; exhibition at the Jean-Claude Riedel gallery

6 works

7 works

1 work

Dies in Paris

The Museo Reina Sofía shows his work in « París pese a todo. Foreign artists, 1944-1968 »

Publication of the catalogue raisonné by Inmaculada Real López (Trea)

The Museo Reina Sofía presents his personal archives