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 he met the European Avant-garde and was introduced to the main Spanish figures of abstraction.

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