Artist trained in Barcelona and Paris, where he lived for long periods, and where, in 1921, he arrived to sign a contract with the gallery owner Daniel Henry Kahnweiler. There is a diversity of styles in his work. In Paris he became acquainted with the art of the impressionists and the avant-garde, mainly cubism, surrealism and even magical realism, with which he worked and experimented until his own development led him to return to conventional and conservative figuration. This piece depicts, in the figure of the young boy and the guitar, a moment almost frozen in time, the appearance of a classicism that replaces the idealisation of forms with new possibilities of the objective. This was partly linked to artistic manifestations that emerged in German painting. The expressive power of the face and the stillness of the image is one of the characteristics. The figure conveys a feeling of strangeness because its objective description brings out the disturbing underlying superficiality of things.