Maruja Mallo was a Spanish painter born in 1902 in Vivero, Spain. She had a romance with poet Rafael Alberti in 1925. In the 1930s, she had her first exhibition in Paris and taught in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War in 1936, she fled to Argentina. She returned to Spain in the 1960s. Maruja Mallo died in 1995 in Madrid and was known for her paintings including "Las uvas" and "La sorpresa del trigo."

1. MARUJA MALLO
Translated by:
Pablo Garcia
Julia Martin
Carlos Expósito
Ángela Rodríguez

2. 1902
Maruja Mallo was born on the 5th of January of 1902 in Vivero (Lugo).

3. She had a romance with a poet called
Rafael Alberti.
They met for the first time at Retiro Park
(Madrid) in 1925.
1925

4. 1925
Maruja Mallo and Rafael Alberti
met the day that Federico García
Lorca offered a poetry recital,
due to the first exhibition of
Iberian Artists, which took place
in 1931.

5. 1932
His first exhibition in Paris took place in the Pierre Loeb
Gallery

6. 1933
He returned to Madrid in 1933. In that year he
devoted himself to teaching drawing and ceramics at
the Arévalo High School, in Avila.

7. 1936
In 1936, with the
beginning of the Civil
War, Mallo goes to
Argentina.

8. Studies :
Maruja Mallo studied until 1926 at the Royal Academy of Fine
Arts while also attending from 1923 the Free Academy of
Julio Moisés along with her brother Cristino.

9. Signature

10. 1962
In the decade of the 60´s she returned
to Spain

11. 1965
On her return to Spain in 1965, nobody remembered her any
longer. She started then a new artistic stage.
This painting is
an example of
this new stage
Cabeza de Mujer

12. 1982
In 1982, two decades after her return to Madrid from her long American exile, she
attended the opening of Andy Warhol´s exhibition at the Fernando Vijande
Gallery in Madrid, where she met the famous American artist.

13. 1982
Gold Medal to Fine Arts Achievements

14. 1990
Madrid Gold Medal.

15. 1991
Xunta de Galicia Gold Medal

16. DEATH
Maruja Mallo died
on the 6th of
February of 1995
in Madrid.

17. Most famous paintings
Las uvas La sorpresa del trigo Escaparate
Imprescindibles Canto de las espigas Selvatro
Ciudad de mujeres

18. WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE
Salvador Dalí
Concha Méndez
Federico García
Lorca
Rafael Alberti

19. Interesting fact
Madonna is one of the most famous owners of her
paintings.