Antonio López-García
Remains from a Meal
1971
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Antonio López-García
Remains from a Meal
1971
Physical Qualities
Graphite and graphite wash with erasing and stumping, Sheet: 422 × 543 mm. (16 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Apple Hill Foundation for the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number
1972.2
Antonio López-García is one of Spain’s most admired contemporary artists whose 2008 one-person exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston finally exposed his art to American audiences. López-García’s drawings focus on the light and atmosphere that illuminate modest items found at his home in Madrid. In this still life, clam shells and bones are elevated beyond the detritus of lunch to the subjects of an elegy. The delicacy of light glinting off the spoon, the water in the drinking glass, and the surprising prescription bottle exhibit a deftness of touch that draws viewers into this masterpiece of mark-making. Edward Benesch often travelled to Spain and acquired a number of drawings by Spanish Realists, an aspect of contemporary drawing rarely found in American museums.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1972; Apple Hill Foundation
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
Marlborough Gallery, NY, "Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings," 3 April - 29 April 1986.
BMA, "Contemporary Spanish Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 17 September - 28 November 1986.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, "Antonio López Pintura, Scultura, Dibujo," 4 May - 19 July 1993, cat 139, p. 199.
MFA Boston, "Antonio Lopez Garcia," 13 April - 27 July 2008.
Ann Shafer, BMA, "On Paper: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 18 November 2012 - 10 February 2013.
Fundacio Catalunya- La Pedrera, "Antonio Lopez". Fundacio Catalunya-La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain, 21 September 2023- 14 January 2024.
BMA, "Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 14 October - 12 December 1982.
Marlborough Gallery, NY, "Paintings, Sculptures, and Drawings," 3 April - 29 April 1986.
BMA, "Contemporary Spanish Drawings from the Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 17 September - 28 November 1986.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, "Antonio López Pintura, Scultura, Dibujo," 4 May - 19 July 1993, cat 139, p. 199.
MFA Boston, "Antonio Lopez Garcia," 13 April - 27 July 2008.
Ann Shafer, BMA, "On Paper: Drawings from the Benesch Collection," 18 November 2012 - 10 February 2013.
Fundacio Catalunya- La Pedrera, "Antonio Lopez". Fundacio Catalunya-La Pedrera, Barcelona, Spain, 21 September 2023- 14 January 2024.
Antonio Bonet Correa, "Antonio López García," Goya 17 (July/August 1973), pp. 92-103, ill. p. 98.
Michael Brenson et al., Antonio López García (NY: Rizzoli, 1990), p. 201.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 195, ill.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Antonio López-García 1971"
