Antonio López

ANTONIO LÓPEZ GARCÍA (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1936).
"Rosas de Ávila II", 2019.
Etching on Hahnemühle paper. Copy 29/76. Edition of 76 + 10 A.P.
Signed and justified in pencil.
Size: 54 x 50,5 cm; 79 x 71 cm (paper).
Painter and sculptor, Antonio López studied between Madrid, at the San Fernando Academy, and Italy, where he travelled thanks to a scholarship. During his student period he formed, together with other artists such as Enrique Gran, Amalia Avia and Lucio Muñoz, what has come to be known as the Madrid School. After finishing his studies, in 1957, he made his individual debut in Madrid. Since then he has been shown repeatedly in galleries in Europe, the United States, China and Korea, and in 1993 the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid devoted an anthological exhibition to him. He is a member of the San Fernando Academy, and his awards include the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts and the Velázquez Prize for Plastic Arts. In 2008 the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston devoted a monographic exhibition to him, and in 2011 the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao will do the same. He is represented at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the ARTIUM in Vitoria, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Fundación Juan March and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, among others.