Isidor Balaguer Sanchis, better known as Doro Balaguer, was born in Valencia in 1931, in a family of small manufacturers and traders, specialised in trimming. He studied Fine Arts in the School of Valencia (1946-1952), located in the former convent of Carmen. But the academic and ideological atmosphere was so depressing that Doro decided to travel. He first moved to Ibiza and afterwards to Madrid and Paris looking to become more professional.

Paris was for Balaguer a set of findings. Among others, the abstraction, as a way of painting absolutely opposed to realism and figurativism. He participated there in collective exhibitions in the Spanish College -where he resided for a while- and in some commercial halls. From the French capital, without losing the relationship with Valencia, he was linked with the small artists centres that were appearing and in particular with the Parpalló Group, initiated around 1956 and dissolved on 1961.

In Paris, Doro Balaguer realised that an artist, an intellectual had to commit not only with his craft. That’s how he entered into PCE (Communist Party of Spain). In a short trip to Valencia in 1969 he was arrested and imprisoned. When he left prison, he was no longer empowered to have passport and therefore he could not return to Paris. In Valencia he took up the clandestine political activity and continued to interact with the small groups that developed a critical thinking, linked to the claims of the language and culture of the country. Subsequently, unhappy with the PCE politics, he left it -when it was already legalised. So he created with Saboreáis Muñoz and other former militants the journal of though “Sentido”. After this, he took part as booster and leader first in the Left Grouping of the Valencian Country and after that in the Valencian People’s Union until he recused of the active policy.

He published the commemorative volume “La izquierda agónica. Recuerdos y reflexiones”.