Lucio Muñoz

Lucio Muñoz, Spanish painter born in Madrid. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, where he met Amalia Avia, who would become his wife. In 1956 he was awarded a scholarship by the French state to continue his studies in the neighboring country, where he came into contact with the works of Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet, his style ultimately being framed within informalism.

In 1983 he received the National Prize for Plastic Arts. In 1989 the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid held a retrospective exhibition of his work.

Among his main works, the apse of the Basilica of Aránzazu in Oñate (Guipúzcoa) stands out, as well as the mural that presides over the Plenary of the Madrid Assembly, a work he completed shortly before his death.