José Fin was a Spanish artist born to neuropsychiatrist Juan Vilató and Lola Ruiz, Pablo Picasso's sister. He trained at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona and participated in his first group exhibition in 1932. He fought in the war and went to France in 1939, returning the following year and becoming friends with Manolo Hugué. In 1943, he exhibited in Barcelona, which was considered the first artistic revulsive of the postwar period in Barcelona. With a grant from the French government, he settled in Paris in 1946, where he frequented the Kahnweiler circle and held several solo exhibitions during the fifties and sixties. He also worked in sculpture and mural painting, with notable works for the church of Coscojuela de Sobra...