Spanish surrealist painter (1906–1957).
Born January 3rd, 1906 in San Cristóbal de La Laguna. [ref]
Died December 31st, 1957 at 51 years old in Paris. [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel