Subject: Graphic work p. XX. Bullfighting.
Publication: Madrid, Hispánica de Bibliofilia, 1987
Technique: Etching.
Annotations: Special edition ‘Suite of the original engravings by José Caballero’ on thick paper with watermark by Richard de Bas copy XIV/XXX. Signed by the artist in pencil in the right margin.
Size: 16 x 12 cm (plate) 43 x 33 cm (paper)
Caballero Muñoz-Caballero, José. Huelva, 11.VI.1915 - Madrid, 26.V.1991. Painter, draughtsman, engraver and set designer.
José Caballero was born into a well-to-do family of great importance in Huelva society. He trained at the Huelva Academy of Fine Arts with the Malaga master José Fernández Alvarado and met other nationally renowned artists such as Ramón Pontones, Manuel Moreno Díaz and José Pablo Martínez Coto.
During his youth in Huelva, Caballero displayed exceptional skill in drawing, full of precision, sensitivity and mastery, and in painting, which he turned early and insatiably towards the avant-garde movements of the time, Surrealism and, to a lesser extent, Cubism, thanks to the influence of Manuel de la Corte Amo, Rogelio Buendía, Adriano del Valle and José Cádiz Salvatierra, as well as interesting publications such as Papel de Aleluyas and Meridiano.
In 1929 he moved to Madrid to study industrial engineering, a career he soon abandoned to continue his studies at the Escuela Superior de San Francisco in Madrid.