He was born in Pamplona, but his parents moved to Alicante when he was four years old and his first art lessons came at the age of eleven with Lorenzo Casanova.

In between, in 1925, he won a major award at the International Exhibition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts.

[2] His loyalty to the legitimate government forced him and his family to seek exile in France after the war.

[1] But due to the German invasion in 1940, he was forced to flee south and was arrested while attempting to cross the border.

[1] Major retrospectives of his work have been held in Bilbao (1986), Pamplona and Barcelona (simultaneously in 1999)[2] and Alicante, at the Gravina Museum of Fine Arts (2003).