Tona attended the School of Art in Barcelona in 1917, where he studied drawing, painting and sculpture with the sculptor Josep Llimona.
In 1920 Tona worked in the studio of the sculptor Pau Gargallo and created drawings for the satirical newspaper Papitu.
Tona, along with Catalan painter Alfred Figueras, moved to Algiers in 1925 and established an Arts Academy where they taught painting, sculpture and drawing.
Along with painter Louis Bernasconi he set up the "Salons de la Résistance" in North Africa to raise money for the movement.
His exhibition in the "Champion-Cordier" gallery in Paris in 1946 was sponsored by Albert Marquet who also gave him lodgings in this studio in La Frette-Montigny.