EUGENIO FERNÁNDEZ GRANELL (A Coruña, 1912 - Madrid, 2001).No title. New York Era, 1955.Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Measures: 46 x 61 cm; 69 x 84 cm (frame).The present work has been carried out during his New York period, in which Granell developed a work close to the language dictated by Picasso and Chirico, creating a totally avant-garde aesthetic.Painter, watercolorist, engraver and sculptor, Eugenio Fernández Granell spent his childhood in Santiago de Compostela, a city that will largely mark his plastic work. At first inclined towards music, in 1928 he moved to Madrid to study violin at the Higher School of Music. In the capital he frequented intellectual circles linked to Marxism, and finally joined the Workers' Party for Marxist Unification in 1935. At the outbreak of the civil war he joined the republican army, and also directed "The Red Combatant", the newspaper of his party. However, after the end of the war, he will be persecuted both by the new regime and by his communist comrades, for his status as a Trotskyist. He was therefore exiled to France in 1939, and after passing through several concentration camps he marched to South America. He settled in the Dominican Republic, where he entered the Symphony Orchestra as lead violin. However, as the Trujillo dictatorship hardened, Fernández Granell left the country to settle in Guatemala, where he will work as a teacher at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas. When the Guatemalan revolution broke out in 1950, he had to escape again for fear of Stalinist persecution, and this time he arrived with his family in Puerto Rico, where the painter will hold the chair of Art History at the Faculty of Humanities. However, despite this continuous pilgrimage, Fernández Granell continues with his artistic work, holding exhibitions and publishing books of stories and poetry. In 1956 he met Marcel Duchamp, who complimented his artistic and poetic art and reinforced it in his surrealist activity. That same year he moved to New York, where he will settle permanently. Professor of Spanish Literature at the Brooklyn College of the city, at this stage he obtained a doctorate in Sociology at the New School for Social Reserach, with the thesis “El Guernica de Picasso. The end of a Spanish era ”(1967). Fernández Granell will continue in New York until 1985, when after retiring he returns with his wife to Spain, settling in Madrid. Already widely recognized, he will be awarded outstanding prizes such as the Gold Medal for Fine Arts. Likewise, in 1995 the foundation that bears his name was established in Santiago de Compostela, and which today collects most of his plastic production