Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (1870-1945), was a Basque Spanish painter who was famous for his depictions of traditional Spanish figures such as gypsies and bullfighters.
He was awarded the grand prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1938.
He is considered to be one of the most important Spanish painters from the end of the 19th Century and beginnings of the 20th Century.
Ignacio Zuloaga was born in Éibar in the Basque Country in the North of Spain, near the Monastery of Loyola.