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EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT
Plaça de la Vila
Nen amb sargantana ('Boy with lizard'), bronze sculpture by Francisco López Hernández (1932-2017), installed in September 1994.
The sculptor Francisco López Hernández (Madrid, 28 April 1932 - 8 January 2017) belonged to a family of goldsmiths and received his first artistic training from his father. He later studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Madrid and at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando. In 1956, he traveled to Rome with a scholarship from the Ministry of Education, and also made stays in Paris and Greece. He exhibited for the first time in 1955, and in 1960 he married the visual artist Isabel Quintanilla and they moved to live in Rome between 1960 and 1964, where he worked as a professor at the Spanish Academy. His works are in numerous museums, including the Reina Sofía Art Center in Madrid, the British Museum in London, the Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Juan March Foundation and the Iberdrola Collection.
Photo © Albert Lázaro-Tinaut, 11.2022.
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