Ricardo Gutiérrez Abascal
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Life
He was born in BilbaoBilbao
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, and educated in Germany
Germany
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. In 1931 he was named director of the Madrid Museum of Modern Art but exiled to Mexico
Mexico
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in 1939. He authored The Masters of Modern Art (Los Maestros del Arte Moderno), Julio Antonio (1920), Victorio Macho (1926), and Altarpiece of Modern Painting (Retablo de la Pintura Moderna) (1953). He was also know by the pseudonym Juan de la Encina. He died in Mexico.