Manolita Piña Torres-Garcia (née Rubies 24 February 1883 – 11 June 1994) was a Spanish-Uruguayan painter and supercentenarian.
[1] Considered an "inseparable companion" to Torres García,[2] she accompanied him to conferences, exhibitions and supported all of his artistic endeavors.
[6] Piña Torres states that she stopped painting so that she would not become a better painter than her husband or disturb his work, which would have been shameful to their family during her time and in her culture.
[7] Piña Torres also refused to move back to Barcelona because of the crimes against art that were committed there, such as destroying frescoes.
[8] She died at the age of 111 and has a death date of June 11th, 1994, which made her the oldest person in Uruguay at that time.
[9] In 1951, Piña Torres created a group in Montevideo, called MAOTIMA (standing for the names of the participants, Manolita, Otilia, Iphigenia and Maria Angelica) which was dedicated to working on embroidered tapestries.