Francisco Ribera Gomez began working at the studio of his father, José Ribera Blázquez, where he was influenced by romantics such as Madrazo, Rosales and Esquivel, and he later studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts with professors of the stature of Moreno Carbonero, Julio Romero de Torres and Mateo Inurria. He completed his training after two years with a scholarship at El Paular and in Granada.

His first involvement in the National Fine Arts Exhibition in Madrid earned him awards in 1928 and 1930. In the thirties he produced his brilliant posters, with which he won the Fine Arts Circle Masked Ball poster competition in Madrid in 1931, and he was chosen to illustrate the International Fair in Barcelona in 1933. In th...