Andrés Segovia had a turbulent childhood, divided between South America, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and finally France, where he arrived in Paris as a Spanish refugee.

For a time, he juggled his studies and his painting, and in 1947 he decided to devote himself exclusively to painting, but not before taking an interest in poster art, spending a short time in Paul Colin's studio. His meeting and subsequent friendship with Antoni Clavé was decisive for him, but he continued to teach himself.

He participated in numerous group exhibitions, notably in Paris with the painters Témoins de leur Temps (Witnesses of Their Time), in the early years of the Salon de Mai, and at the Salons d'Automne and de la Jeune Peinture.

In 1949, he began to hold solo exhibitions, first in Geneva, then in Paris in 1951 and regularly thereafter, in New York in 1954, 1965, 1967, and 1974, in Washington in 1963, in Germany in 1967 and 1969, in Madrid in 1969, and in Paris in 1992 at the Salon des Arts Graphiques (SAGA) presented by Turner Art Editions.