Jaime Sabartés

[1] Sabartés moved to Quezaltenango, Guatemala in 1904 to stay with his maternal uncle Francisco Gual Oromí (1872-1931), who was a businessman.

During his time in Guatemala, Sabartés organised several major exhibitions of modern art featuring Picasso and other artists, as well as participating in the intellectual life of the capital, taking part in regular intellectual gatherings and discussions and establishing friendships with artists such as Carlos Valenti, Carlos Mérida, Humberto Garavito, Rafael Yela Günther and Rafael Arévalo Martínez, among others.

During the celebrations of the centenary of Guatemalan independence Sabartés was on the jury for an art prize which was won by Humberto Garavito.

They travelled to Paris to visit Picasso and request financial support to embark for Montevideo, Uruguay, where Sabartés practiced journalism for the newspaper El Dia.

In 2007, Barcelona City Council gave the name of Plaça Sabartés to the new remodelled urban space behind the Picasso Museum, between the streets of Montcada and Flassaders.