characters and crucifixions. In 1967 he settled permanently in Paris, and joined the opposition to Francoist Spain. In France he participated in numerous debates and controversies in the fields of politics, aesthetics and artistic creation. He also broadened his thematic and pictorial register. Along with his Femmefauteuil (literally "Womanarmchair"), he also worked on the series "Imaginary Portraits", and Goya’s Dog and Imaginary Portraits of Goya begin to take shape. In 1971 he temporarily abandoned painting on canvas to devote himself to writing, drawing and painting on paper. In 1977, Rolf Lauter and Antonio Saura met for the first time in the Rodolphe Stadler gallery Paris and started a dialogue and a long-standing friendship. In 1979, the collaboration gave rise to the first major retrospective at the Galerie de Margarete Lauter Mannheim with more than 50 images and drawings, followed by many other presentations. In 1989 Lauter - then Chief Curator of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt - has been co-organizer with Katharina Winnekes of the Frankfurt exhibition The Abused Man with works by Saura, Millares and Canogar. In 1977 Saura began publishing his writings, and he created several stage designs for the theatre, ballet and opera, thanks to the collaboration with his brother, the film director Carlos Saura. From 1983 to his death in 1998, he revisited all of his themes and figures. Individual exhibitions Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid (1956) Galerie Stadler, Paris (1957 & 1979) Galerie Van de Loo, Munich (1959) Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY (1961) The Stedelijk Museum, Eindhoven (1963) The Rotterdamsche Kunsling (1963) The Musée de Buenos Aires (1963) The Musée de Rio de Janeiro (1963) The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1964) The Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (1964) The Konsthallen, Göteborg (1964) Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1965) Galerie Maeght, Barcelona (1975 & 1984) Galerie Lauter, Mannheim (1979) The Abbaye de Sénanque, Gordes (1985) Galerie Lauter Mannheim (1985-1986) The Wiener Secession, Viena (1989) Harvard University, Cambridge (1989) Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva; MNCARS, Madrid; Lenbachhaus, Munich & Réfectoire des Jacobins, Toulouse (1989) Museum of Modern Art, Lugano (1994) Galerie Daniel Lelong, Paris (1997) Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern (2012) Bibliography Saura in Cuenca, monograph. Phrases: Georgina Oliver - images: Félix Rozen. Borgen. Copenhagen, 1983 (limited edition: 1000 copies) References External links Chronology Official website of Succession Saura, Switzerland Obituary in The Independent: Antonio Saura (by William Jeffett), 1 August 98 Saura, Memory and Recollection, Hommage to Antonio Saura, Bilbao July