Joaquín PEINADO (1898 – 1975) Still life .

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 École Supérieure de Commerce in Seville, where he remained until 1918. That same year, he abandoned his business studies to enter the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, Madrid, where he studied under Julio Romero de Torres and Cecilio Plá.
In 1923 he travelled to Paris, where he met and became friends with Picasso and Luis Buñuel, among other members of the Spanish colony, later known as 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 influence his work.

After taking part in various exhibitions, he travelled to Amsterdam in 1926, where he worked on the sets for Manuel de Falla’s El retablo de maese Pedro, directed by his friend Buñuel.
In 1927, he won the Málaga Council Painting Prize and returned to Spain, where he worked as an illustrator for several magazines, including Litoral de Málaga and La Gaceta Literaria de Madrid. He takes part in major group exhibitions of avant-garde painting: L’Exposition de peintures et sculptures d’Espagnols résidant à Paris in Madrid and the Exposition Régionale d’Art Moderne in Granada.

His Republican ideas led him to take part, from Paris, in propaganda work with the government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. He remained in Paris for practically the whole of the Second World War, and in 1946, as a delegate of the Section of Spanish Painters of the École de Paris, he took part in the international exhibition organized by Unesco. Along with Francisco Bores, Óscar Domínguez, Ginés Parra, José Palmeiro and Pablo Picasso, he was present at the exhibition held in the National Gallery in Prague, entitled “Art of Republican Spain; Artists of the École de 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 in San Telmo de Málaga.

He died in Paris at the age of 76.
Ronda, his hometown, has built the Joaquín Peinado Museum. Peinado’s works are held in museums around the world.

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