Salvador Dalí said of Maruja Mallo that she was "half angel, half shellfish." Ramón Gómez de la Serna defined her as a "little witch" and an "artist with fourteen souls." And Federico García Lorca affirmed that her paintings were the ones he had ever seen painted "with the greatest imagination and sensuality." Maruja Mallo (Viveiro, 1902 - Madrid, 1995) is remembered as an unclassifiable figure: she was cultured, cosmopolitan, talkative, and entertaining, and, at the same time, a humble, meticulous, and rigorous artist. Throughout her career, Mallo – whose real name was Ana María Gómez González – was an unattainable talent, as can be seen in the major exhibition that the Botín Center in Santander dedicated to it until September 14, entitled Maruja Mallo. Mask and Compass. Paintings and drawings from 1924 to 1982.