José Hernández

His father, José Tereso Gutiérrez-Solana, was born in Mexico and went to Spain thanks to an inheritance. He married Manuela Josefa Gutiérrez-Solana. He studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts; Later he alternated stays between Cantabria and Madrid, but he had time to travel through the towns and even to be a laborer in the Bombé deltorero gang, although he lived comfortably with his father's money. He settled in Madrid at the end of 1917. There he frequented the outskirts of everything, attending dances, picnic areas and suburban museums of the Paseo del Prado, such as the (then) lonely and dilapidated National Archaeological Museum. He is accompanied by his inseparable brother Manuel, who is a singer. Solana creates his own style, neither academic nor inclined to the avant-garde, no matter how frequent the intelligentsia gathered in the gathering of Pombo, whose animator and friend Ramón Gómez de la Serna dedicated an entire book to him, to which the painter corresponded with his painting My friends (1920), where he paints such a gathering around a table (Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid). Ramón met Solana at the exhibition he held at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in January 1907. Gutiérrez Solana had a first exhibition in Paris (1928), which was a failure. In another that Alfonso XIII attended, his paintings were hung behind a door so that they would not bother the monarch. But in 1936, when the Civil War began, Solana was famous and recognized outside and within Spain. He moved to Valencia and then to Paris, where he published Paris (1938). In 1939 he returned to Madrid, where he died on Saint John's Day, June 24, 1945.