Ginés Parra spent his childhood in Algeria, working with his father as a miner. After several trips to Argentina and other South American countries between 1910 and 1916, he moved to the United States. He worked in copper mines in Arizona. He soon moved to New York, where he began taking classes at the Students League. He began his art studies at the National Academy of Fine Arts in the same city, although he was forced to continue working in the subway and as a waiter to survive. Around 1920, he settled in Paris, in a studio in the Montparnasse district, to continue his training at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Soon after, he will establish contact with other painters such as Pablo Picasso, Julio González, or M...