Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
Lote 400:
Oil on canvas. José María López Mezquita (Granada, 1883 – Madrid, 1954) was considered the greatest exponent of the realistic portrait of the 1920s, receiving the gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1901 with his painting “The rope of the prisoners” , currently conserved in the Reina Sofía Museum, and he receives it again in 1910 with his painting Portrait of Messrs. B. and sons. Another of his outstanding works is “El embovedado”, a view of Granada from 1904, currently kept in the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga. Under the patronage of Isabel de Borbón, he made trips and exhibitions in Belgium, Freancia, England and France. Being co-founder of the Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors and joining the Hispanic Society, for which he painted a series of portraits in 1926, as well as for the Fine Arts Associations of Lisbon, Cuba and Antwerp. Provenance: private collection, Ávila. Measurements: 106 x 72.
