Joaquín Ruiz-Peinado Vallejo (Ronda, July 19, 1898 - Paris, February 13, 1975) was a Spanish painter, cultivator of the Cubist style, one of the most prominent representatives of the Spanish School of Paris.
In 1915 he entered the Higher School of Commerce in Seville where he would remain until 1918, the year in which he abandoned his commerce studies to enter the Higher School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, where he would be a student of Julio Romero de Torres and Cecilio Pla.
In 1923 he traveled to Paris, where he met and became friends with Picasso and Luis Buñuel among other members of the Spanish colony.
After participating in various exhibitions, he traveled to Amsterdam in 1926 where he collaborated on the sets of Manuel de Falla's work, "El retablo de maese Pedro" directed by his friend Buñuel.
In 1927, upon winning the painting prize from the Malaga Provincial Council, he returned to Spain where he participated as an illustrator in several magazines, including Litoral, from Malaga, and La Gaceta Literaria from Madrid;
His republican ideas made him participate, from Paris, in propaganda tasks with the government of the Second Spanish Republic during the years of the Civil War.
After traveling and exhibiting throughout America, he returned to Spain in 1969 where he was appointed member of the Royal Academy of San Telmo in Málaga.
He died on February 13, 1975 in Paris.
selected works
Bodegón
1952
Oil on canvas (74x92)