Calle Roberto Domingo

Roberto Domingo Fallola was born in Paris in 1883, son of the Valencian painter Francisco Domingo Marqués, who had his studio there. The son arrived in Madrid in 1906 and trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando under Antonio Muñoz Degrain. From then on he painted one thing only: bulls. He did it in oil, watercolour and ink, never straying from the ring. The National Exhibitions rewarded that obsession, and in 1915 he reached the first medal with “El coleo,” which the State bought. That year he set his home and studio on Calle Goya, at number 42, where in 1998 the city placed a ceramic plaque. His signature circulated through La Lidia, ABC, El Ruedo and other magazines that brought the bullfight to those who never set foot in the ring. He died on 5 August 1956 and was buried in the San Isidro cemetery.