José Tapiro y Baro

José Tapiro y Baro was a Catalonian painter best known for his vividly realistic watercolor portraits from Morocco. After leaving his life in Spain to study in Italy, Tapiro eventually made his way to Tangier, Morocco, where he found inspiration for his most acclaimed work. In 1873, Tapiro held his first showing of Orientalist paintings at the “International Art Circle of Rome.” His success was short lived, sadly, due to his weakening health. In 2013, one hundred years after his death, a joint retrospective was held at the Museu d’Art i Història de Reus and the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in his honor.