Federico Beltrán Masses

Who was Federico Beltrán Masses?

Federico Armando Beltrán Masses was a Spanish painter who was born in Guaira de la Melena, Cuba.

Beltrán-Masses was renowned as a master of colour and the psychological portrait, as well as a painter of seductive images of women. Born in Cuba, where his mother’s family had lived for nearly two centuries, his family returned to Spain to live in Barcelona, when he was seven years old - the painter’s Spanish heritage would influence his oeuvre deeply. His paintings are rich with musical and poetic references influenced by ‘Greek mythology, orphic mysteries and fantasies of Asia, where we are led by Gustave Moreau’ remarked Louis Vauxcelles.