Pablo Serrano

PABLO SERRANO (Crivillén, Teruel, 1908 - Madrid, 1985).
"Queen María Luisa".
Bronze and marble base. Exemplary 64/68.
Signed and justified.
Measurements: 24 x 16,5 x 8 cm.
Pablo Serrano's "Queen Maria Luisa" reinterprets in bronze, from a contemporary language, the famous image created by Francisco de Goya in La reina María Luisa con tontillo (1789).
After beginning his training in Zaragoza Serrano moved to Barcelona, where he studied sculpture until his departure, in 1939, to Montevideo. Between Uruguay and Argentina he worked for twenty-five years. He won the First National Prize at the Montevideo Fine Arts Salon in 1944, 1951 and 1954, but did not return to Spain until his great triumph at the Montevideo Biennial in 1955, when he was awarded the Grand Prize. That same year he won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Hispano-American Biennial in Barcelona. In 1962 he exhibits, with great critical acclaim, twenty-three sculptures at the Venice Biennale. In 2003 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. We can find works by Pablo Serrano in the museum that bears his name in Zaragoza, the Reina Sofia Museum, the National Museum of Montevideo, the San José Museum in Uruguay, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the National Galleries of Rome and Budapest, the Rio Piedras University in Puerto Rico, the Brow University in Providence, the Clear Lake Clear Lake University in Clear Lake, and the University of San José in Uruguay, Brow in Providence, Clear Lake City in Houston and Zaragoza, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Venice, the Vatican Museum and the Middelheim in Antwerp, among many others.