Dear Sophie -
The great Spanish painter of the 20th Century is PABLO PICASSO. (1881- 1973) He was prolific in every way.
His ego was the size of his enormous talent. He produced as much as he consumed, filling houses with paintings while leading different lives with different wives.
His subjects and process evolved from the blue period and cubism to lovers and the horrors of the Spanish Civil War in the painting titled "Guernica". GERTRUDE STEIN was an important early patron.
He studied all of the masters, His series of paintings of bathers reference Cezanne. And an entire series of Meninas honor the Spanish painter Velazquez.
Among his great loves was his Dachshund named "Lump"
Con amor,
Mom