This exhibition explored the friendship between two prominent figures of Spanish cultural in the first third of the 20th century. The Uruguayan painter Rafael Barradas had close ties to the Residencia de Estudiantes during his stay in Madrid and befriended Spanish poet, translator, and journalist Juan Gutiérrez Gili. The core of the exhibition consisted of Barradas' 34 original works, which included drawings and letters he sent to Gutierrez Gili. The items in the exhibition showed the painter's many talents: illustrations for periodicals and sketches of portraits and landscapes.

There were also manuscripts, photographs, first editions of Gutiérrez Gili's books and other editions of his books which Barradas illustrated, copies of the periodicals where they worked together, and a selection of their correspondence with Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Federico García Lorca. As a result of the effort made by the Residencia de Estudiantes in organizing this exhibition and its catalog, the Gutiérrez Comas family, Gili' heirs, decided to donate to the Residencia de Estudiantes all the items exhibited  and other documents pertaining to the avant-garde of the early 20th century.