Hernando Viñes

Son of a French engineer of Catalan origin and María Soto (daughter of a former president of Honduras and a native Guatemalan), and nephew of pianist Ricardo Viñes.

In 1923 he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Autumn Salon and became friends with Manuel Ángeles Ortiz who introduced him to the circle of Spanish painters of what would be called the School of Paris: Joaquín Peinado (with whom he would share a studio), Celso Lagar, Pancho Cossío and Francisco Bores.

In 1931 he joined Lulú Jourdain (daughter of the decorator, writer and politician Francis Jourdain), who became his muse and habitual model.

In the autumn of 1939, when their daughter was just born, they had to flee from German-occupied Paris, taking refuge in San Juan de Luz, next to the Franco-Spanish border.

He has work at the Pompidou Center in Paris;