After initiating his artistic formation with only nine years, Ignacio Gil Sala entered the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona, where he had as teachers Félix Mestres and Vicente Borrás. In 1930, while still almost an apprentice, he was awarded the School's bronze medal, and in 1936, he won a scholarship for a study trip to Spain. Throughout his life, Gil Sala traveled throughout the Peninsula as well as to different Islamic and Latin American countries. He exhibited his work in Spain, France, the Philippines, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Colombia, among many other countries, with special mention of his solo exhibitions held in the galleries Costa (Palma de Mallorca, 1940), Augusta (Barcelona, exhibiting periodically...