Works by Antonio López

Antonio López García was born on January 6, 1936 in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real (Spain). His early vocation for drawing, as well as the influence of his uncle, the painter Antonio López Torres, led him to devote himself to painting. After finishing his studies, he held his first individual exhibitions in 1957 and 1961 in Madrid, while working both in that city and in the town where he was born. From 1961 to 1969 he was professor in charge of the Preparatory Chair of Coloring at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts. In 1990, the film director Víctor Erice filmed El sol del membrillo, where the creative process of the artist is recorded while he paints a quince tree in the courtyard of his house. In January 1993 he was made a full member of Madrid's Royal Academy of San Fernando, and in the same year the Reina Sofía Museum dedicated an anthological exhibition to him. In 2008, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston dedicated a monographic exhibition to him. In addition, his work Madrid desde Torres Blancas reached £1,918,000 at a Christie's auction in London, the highest amount ever paid for a work by a living Spanish artist. In 2011, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum both dedicated temporary exhibitions to him with works from all his periods, although mostly from his latest production. In 2014, the delivery and presentation of one of his most ambitious paintings, The Family of Juan Carlos I, which took him twenty years to complete, created great expectation.