Alejandro Obregón was born in 1920 in Barcelona (Spain) and died in 1992 in Cartagena (Colombia). From a very young age he moved with his family to Barranquilla, later on he would study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts from Boston and at the Llotja in Barcelona. After he completed his study’s, he went to live in France, New York, and finally in 1944 returned to Colombia to participate in the V National Art Hall.

Obregón arrives to Colombia with a particular, define and innovative style for the time. His paintings began to show brushstrokes and stains, where the color would be used in a more arbitrary way to be able to express with much greater force: diluted backgrounds contrasted with fully pigmented close-ups. In other words his paintings play with the figurative and abstract. As for the themes, Obregón began to represent what Alejo Carpentier called the “Realismo magico”: the reality behind appearances. In his canvas, Obregón recreate the reality, harmonically transforming the Colombian landscape while modifing human figures and giving animals a symbolic character, in order to create works full of magical imprint, and full of lyricism.