An important Spanish painter who stood out in avant-garde Spain. In 1950 he trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, where his work went through a short figurative period, which continued along the path of cubist experimentation and ended with abstraction. In 1954 he began to hold his first exhibitions in various galleries in Madrid (Buchhloz and Santa Fe). Two years later he moved to Paris, with a scholarship that allowed him to explore avant-garde painting. There, he was influenced by automatism and material painting. A year later, in 1957, he formed the ‘El Paso’ group in Madrid with Saura, Millares, Canogar and other artists. This group would become very important in terms of avant-garde artistic creation in post-war Spain, as they consolidated the informalist trend and abstract expressionism in the territory.

The style of his work has been changing. Initially he had a figurative phase and then a cubist one. In 1953 his painting evolved towards the abstraction that was prevalent at that time. Influenced at the same time by automatism and material painting, in that same decade he presented works with material surfaces such as sand, which he played with informalist tones such as white, black and ochre. At the beginning of the sixties, he introduced red into his paintings, followed by a formal and material simplification. In the seventies he embarked on a period of chromatic experimentation that finally detonated in a monochrome governed by white. In the same decade he again changed the figures in his works from circular and rounded to angular and geometric. Most of these do not have a title, so they are usually named with a number, and his strokes are notable for being pasty and violent. Feito was a great figure of lyrical abstraction both in Spain and internationally, with a career marked by innovation.

The Suñol Soler Collection houses a single work by the artist, entitled Composition 247, (1961). His work was exhibited in the 2012-13 collective exhibition at the Suñol Foundation entitled: ‘Col lecció Josep Suñol: 5th Anniversary’.