José ORTEGA - Two Heads

Mixed media: gouache, ink and pastel on paper.

signed and dated middle law margin.

a middle fold,made by the artist. a gift to his friend Mr. Moshe Naaim, Tel Aviv, 1960

Ortega is born in 1921 in Spain.  He joins the Communist Party, is being sentenced to 10 years in prison (1947); acquitted in 1952, José Ortega enrolls at the National School of Graphic Arts and at the free Club of Fine Arts in Madrid. In 1953, he receives a French government scholarship to study at the School Estienne, and the School of Fine Arts in Paris.

He returns to Spain between 1954 and 1960, living in hiding. Ortega goes into exile in Paris between 1960 and 1970 where he is considered as one of the major Spanish artists of the new generation. His art, receives numerous awards . José Ortega dies in Paris in December 1990.

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