Information: Jacint Salvadó was another inhabitant of Mont-roig who dedicated his life to painting. He began his career on the canvases when he contracted malaria as a child (the rice fields that brought wealth to the village meant there were a lot of mosquitos) and could do nothing else but paint. As a young man, he moved to Paris, where he befriended Picasso and Dérain (and for whom he acted as a model for his harlequins!). He soon became one of the most promising painters of his generation. He worked in different styles (expressionism, abstract, etc.) and remained active throughout his life, producing world-renowned works until the very end, although he remains an underrated artist in his homeland. In Mont-roig he was known as Cintu Quadrus… (Cintu who paints “quadrus”, which means paintings).