José Aguiar

Aguiar was born in Cuba in 1895 but his family returned to Agulo, La Gomera a few months later in 1896[1] where he was baptised.

[2] He went to school in La Laguna and studied law in Madrid for two years before moving to the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 1916, studying under José Pinazo Martínez.

His main residence was Madrid from 1924 onwards although he moved for a period to Florence in 1930 and had a spell as Professor of Drawing at the School of Arts and Crafts in Seville from 1933.

[2] His house on Calle de la Seda, Agulo, a good example of eighteenth century Canarian architecture, was purchased by the municipal council and restored at a cost of 470,000 Euro as a part of the regeneration project of the municipality of Agulo.

It was turned into a museum, library, artist studio and exhibition space.