Esteban Vicente Pérez (Turégano, Segovia, January 20, 1903 - New York, January 11, 2001), was a Spanish-American painter belonging to the first New York generation of Abstract Expressionism.
After studying at a Jesuit school, he joined the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid in 1921. He had his first individual exhibition in Madrid in 1928, after which he went to Paris and did not return to Spain until 1930. In 1935 he married Estelle Charney, an American whom he had met in Paris.
During World War II he lived by commissioning portraits and teaching Spanish.
Vicente maintained a home and studio in Bridgehampton, NY since 1964. His marriage to Estelle Charney ended in divorce in 1943, shortly after the death of their daughter Mercedes at the age of six.
In 1986 he traveled to Spain, where his work was quite unknown.
His work is represented by the Elvira González Gallery, which has held individual exhibitions of the artist from 1994 to the present.
In 1998 he was awarded the 1997 Castilla y León Award for the Arts, a retrospective was held at the Reina Sofía and the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art was opened in Segovia.
Esteban Vicente died in Bridgehampton on January 10, 2001. He was survived by his third wife, Harriet Peters, whom he had married in 1961.