(picador and bull)

Rafael Alberti

Artist-author Rafael Alberti studied art in Madrid and was a close associate of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, and Cubist/Surrealists Juan Gris, Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel. He later became a close friend of Pablo Picasso. Alberti is most associated with Spanish Surrealism and is known also as a Surrealist poet and author.

Because of his politics, in 1939 he became an exile in Argentina, moving to Rome in 1965. He returned to Spain in 1977 after Franco's death.

This is one of his prints in a technique he developed which involved engraving a lead plate and printing relief. Because of the softness of the matrix it is doubtful that many impressions could be pulled without affecting the image.

See our biography of Alberti for more information.