EDUARDO NARANJO (Monesterio, Badajoz, 1944). Study for "Un día de playa" (A day at the beach), 1977. Mixed media on paper. Signed in the lower right-hand corner Size: 25 x 20 cm; 53 x 45 cm (frame). An outstanding contemporary Spanish painter, Eduardo Naranjo began his artistic training in 1957 with his teacher Eduardo Acosta, and that same year he entered the School of Arts and Crafts. In 1960 he continued his studies at the Santa Isabel de Hungría School of Fine Arts in Seville, and a year later he moved to the San Fernando School in Madrid, where he completed his studies. He has also worked in the field of scenography, and between 1986 and 1991 he made a series of engravings for the book "Poeta en Nueva York" by Federico García Lorca. He has been awarded important prizes such as the Luis de Morales of Badajoz (1974), the Medal of Extremadura (1991), the María de Salamanca National Engraving Prize of the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Engraving (1994) and the Cross of Military Merit for his contribution to the Arts and the Army (1995). Throughout his career he has held solo exhibitions all over the world, and today he is one of the most sought-after living Spanish painters. He is represented in numerous public museums, including the Reina Sofía National Art Centre in Madrid and the Nagasaki Museum in Japan, as well as in countless private collections, including the Masaveu Collection in Oviedo.