Sebastian Junyent trained at the School of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain specialising in genre and landscape painting, also cultivating the tapestry technique mainly during his early years. A close friend of Pablo Picasso, with whom he shared his artistic interests, around 1900, he published several articles on aesthetic themes in the magazine Joventut, one of the main magazines of the modernist movement in Catalonia.

Throughout his career he held several individual exhibitions and took part in artistic competitions and contests such as the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1899, where he exhibited his canvas "Ex voto", and the Barcelona Exhibitions of 1894, 1896 and 1898, among others.

Among his...