Maruja Mallo was a surrealist artist born in January of 1902 in Spain. Mallo moved to Madrid with her family at the age of 20, where she enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Spain’s most prestigious art school, and received her diploma in 1926. From 1927, Mallo was part of the Escuela de Vallecas (School of Vallecas) and illustrated several publications during the 1920s. In 1932, she traveled to Paris, where she met the Surrealists, who radically and immediately influenced her paintings. Mallo was one of the leading contributors to the Spanish Surrealist movement. However, her name was hardly as well-known as her contemporaries Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, or Federico García Lorca. Mallo’s participation in a group exhibition of Spanish artists in Paris in 1935 earned her a place in the Jeu de Paume museum collection. Despite the influence of the constructivist trend in the mid-1930s, she continued to exhibit her work alongside the Surrealists.