Antonio Saura, Spanish painter and writer, occupies a fundamental place in the movements of surrealism, lyrical abstraction and abstract expressionism, although he considers himself primarily self-taught.

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In 1957, Saura co-founded the El Paso group with other Spanish artists who sought to free themselves from the academicism imposed by Franco's society. Throughout her career, Saura explores various series that evolve in parallel with her artistic style. Les ladies allow him to try his hand at abstraction; the Crucifixions, represent the non-figuration of suffering; the Faces introduce color while Crowds are the surreal expression of agglomerations of communities that have no relationship other than that of the awareness of a collective feeling.

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Saura illustrates numerous books, including Don Quixote by Cervantes in 1987 and 1984 by George Orwell. Numerous retrospectives have been devoted to his work, including that of the Wiesbaden Museum in Germany in 2013. In 2016, the exhibition Antonio Saura, from writing to painting at the Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, located in Montricher in Switzerland, highlighted his artistic and literary work.