JORGE CASTILLO CASALDERREY (Pontevedra, 1933)."Actor", 1958, Madrid.Mixed media on paper.Signed and dated on the back.Size: 55 x 44 cm; 71,5 x 61 cm (frame).The son of Spanish emigrants in Argentina, Jorge Castillo returned to Spain in 1957. He entered the artistic circles of Madrid, and in 1958 he began to sell his drawings in the Biosca gallery. He gradually turned to the technique of engraving, which would eventually become his main means of expression, although he alternated it with painting. From 1960 onwards he exhibited his work internationally, in galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Lisbon, Turin, Hanover, Düsseldorf and Geneva. He won prizes such as the International Drawing and Painting Prizes in Darmstadt, the City of Pontevedra and the Cultura Viva de las Artes Plásticas. He is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, the Juan March Foundation, the National Galleries of Edinburgh and Berlin, the San Francisco and Vitoria Museums of Modern Art, the Kunsthalle in Bremen, the Albertina in Vienna, the National Library of Spain and the Guggenheim in New York, among others.