José Guerrero (Granada, 1914 – Barcelona, 1991) studied at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios of Granada and the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid. After finishing his studies, he moved to Paris where e met the European Avant-garde and the main Spanish figures of abstraction.

He got married in Paris with Roxane Whittier Pollock, journalist of Life Magazine, and they moved together to the United States, New York, in 1949. There he discovered the Abstract Expressionism and started creating works of an intense color and gesture. During the 70s, after spending three years in Spain, his paintings turned softer and changed into a new conception more architectonical, but always using the color as the main character of the composition.