Maria Paz Jimenez

Valladolid, 1909 - Donostia / San Sebastián, 1975

María Paz Jiménez was born in Valladolid in 1909. During her childhood and with his family she settled in San Sebastian where her interest in painting was awakened, she learned and practice in a self-taught way.

In 1933, after her marriage, she moved to Madrid and with the outbreak of the War Civil goes into exile in Argentina, which she takes advantage of to continue his education. To her return to San Sebastian, in 1945, participates in the artistic life of the city and she intensifies her work as a painter.

The continuous trips to Paris allow the approach to the renewing currents and, from her initial surreal and fantastic style, she adopts an expressionism of evocation cubist who captures in wide formats with abundant and pasty matter. In stages later she will use sands and plastic paintings within the informalist trend until leading, in the 60s, to the purest abstraction, monochrome and spatial.

María Paz Jiménez, who was always linked to the avant-garde, died in 1975 and her figure and work can be considered references of remarkable importance for much of the protagonists of contemporary art in the Basque Country.