Juan Bayon Salado - Artist Info

About Juan Bayon Salado

Name variants

Juan Bay Sala, Jean Salabet
  • Biography

    Juan Bayón Salado, Bay-Sala, J. Bayon, J.B., Jean Salabet (1913-1995)

    A Biscayan artist, Juan Bayón Salado, was born in Logroño on June 24th, 1913. He died in Bilbao on April 2nd, 1995.

    In 1918 he moved to Bilbao. In the early 1930s, he installed his easel at the Bilbao Arenal, where he painted and raffled his paintings among the attendees in order to help his parents. At the time he used to sign as Bayón, and soon after he became a benchmark in the area. According to the painter Manuel de Gracia:

    "Deeply human and supportive, he did not hesitate in front of the Bermeo catastrophe, where several fishermen died as a result of a gale-force, and in Santurce, before another fisherman’s death, donating all hi...

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