Enrique Climent (Valencia, Spain, 1897-Mexico City, 1980) was a Spanish painter and graphic designer, present in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937, two of whose works are conserved in the National Museum Center of Art Reina Sofía, as part of the collection of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (MEAC). Exiled in Mexico, the country in which he died at the age of 83.1 2 He has been associated with the group promoting the “New Art” in Spain.

He participated in three of the exhibitions of “Los Ibericos” (San Sebastián in 1931, Copenhagen in 1932 and Berlin in 1933), as well as in the International Exhibitions of Contemporary Spanish Art in Paris and Venice in 1936.6

Exile, death and subsequent recognition

He was one of the Spanish exiles who landed in Veracruz in 1939, after crossing the Sinaia, along with other intellectuals and artists (such as José Moreno Villa, Arturo Souto or Remedios Varo.1 In Mexico, Climent brought his avant-garde style closer to the realistic tendencies of the 1940s but not coinciding with the pictorial ideology of Mexican

muralism.1 From 1964, he alternated his Mexican residence with stays in Altea (Alicante) .6 He died in Mexico in 1980.