Manolita Piña

Manolita Piña Torres-García (; 24 February 1883 – 11 June 1994) was a Spanish pianist and painter, and the wife of Spanish-Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres García.

Biography She was born into an upper-class catalan Barcelona family, where she received a traditional education. They had four children together. She and her husband lived throughout Europe, including in Terrassa at the villa of Mon Repos from 1914 to 1919, and then traveled to Brussels, Paris, and then New York City in the United States. She returned to Europe to live in Italy, specifically Genoa and then Fiesole in 1922, and then moved to Paris in 1926, where she settled with Torres García until 1932, when she moved to Madrid. In April 1934,

After her husband's death in 1949, Manolita wanted to create a museum to preserve and promote his art. This would lead to the inauguration of the Torres García Museum (Museo Torres García) in 1953.

She died at the age of 111 on June 11, 1994, being the oldest person in Uruguay at the time of her death.

Legacy In 1951, Piña Torres created a group in Montevideo, called MAOTIMA (standing for the names of the participants, Manolita, Otilia, Iphigenia, and Maria Angelica) which was dedicated to working on embroidered tapestries. Piña Torres set up the foundation to support the Museo Torres Garcia and helped found the museum, which was initially opened on 29 July 1953. The museum went through a long, difficult history until the government of Uruguay stabilized and the museum was inaugurated in its current form in 1986.

She was often a subject of portraiture for her husband

She was posthumously honored in 2000 by the Cultural Center Foundation, Caixa Terrassa.