MARIANO YZQUIERDO VIVAS(Puerto Príncipe, Cuba, 1893- Madrid, 1985).
"Fishermen".
Oil on canvas.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 70 x 63 cm.; 87 x 69 cm.(frame).
Yzquierdo trained at the San Jorge School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts in Madrid. In 1922 he became director of the School of Applied Arts and Artistic Crafts in La Coruña, where he was a member of the Royal Provincial Academy of Fine Arts Nuestra Señora del Rosario. In 1940 he won the post of professor of artistic drawing in Madrid and became director of sections X and XII of the School of Arts and Crafts in that city. He specialised in constumbrist and historical themes and examples of his work are kept in institutions such as the Army Museum and the Military Academy of Saragossa. He took part in the National Fine Arts Exhibitions, where he won several awards, such as third medals in the 1922 and 1945 editions and a second medal in 1950. He also won the first medal at the Salón de Otoño in 1949, the same year he received the Prize of the Ministry of National Education.