GEORGE T LOPEZ (1900-1993) A 'SANTO' CARVED FIGURE
the saint holding a figure aloft in his left hand and a cross in his right, signed and inscribed to the base, 37cm high; together with a further small quantity of Mexican folk art carvings and sculpture (6)
Provenance: The Studio of Peter Snow (1927-2008)
Peter Frederick Briscoe Snow was an English painter, theatre designer and teacher. From the 1960s to the 1990s he was head of postgraduate theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art
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£300 - £500
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Hammer price:
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£340 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
George Lopez came from several generations of wood-carvers. The work of his father, Jose Dolores Lopez, and that of his nephew Eluid Levi Martinez also appears in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Lopez grew up in Cordova, New Mexico, but ran away from his home when he was nineteen to work on the railroad. He returned to New Mexico many years later and devoted his time to carving animals and traditional santos (saints).
