Eduardo Garcia Benito Biography
a.k.a.  Eduardo García Benito

At the age of twenty-one, he was awarded a scholarship by the Valladolid city council to expand his studies in Paris, where he quickly entered the circles of artistic modernity making friends with artists such as Pablo Gargallo , Picasso , José Clara , Juan Gris , Modigliani and Gauguin . would influence his work of artistic currents of Modernity. There he established himself as a portrait painter, a decorative artist and illustrator.

He illustrated for Vogue and Vanity Fair.  Garcia Benito's drawings appear again with the latest fashions in Paris and he continued to contribute with Vogue until the end of the 40's.

In his last years, Benito focused on his facet of painter, as a muralist and portraitist. In 1962 he returned to Spain permanently and settled in Valladolid .

In 1974 the Congress of the United States approved a motion congratulating him for the cultural work that he carried out in that country. He died in his hometown on December 1 , 1981 .