 Despite their completion in 1984, the paintings were publicly unveiled and put on show only in September 2009, after an agreement was finally reached with the veteran artist.The Arantzazu reconstruction project paved the way to the establishment of the influential artistic group Gaur ('today') in the 1960s.In 1973, he presented in Bilbao's Museo de Bellas Artes (Bilbao Fine Arts Museum) his work "Serie Cosmogonica Vasca" (Basque Cosmogonic Series), which included some 19 works made in wood depicting Basque Mythology motifs.