Rocas, oso y pajaro, (Rocks, bear and bird), by Spanish artist Pancho Lasso, (c. 1930-33), 16 x cm.
Pancho Lasso ( b. 14 May 1904 Arrecife , Lanzarote , d. 25 January 1973, Madrid Spanish sculptor. Son of a cobbler, he learned the trade of a hairdresser; but his true vocation led him to enter, at the age of fourteen, the School of Arts and Crafts in Arrecife, Lanzarote. Two years later, in 1920, his father died. In 1925 he begins to teach anatomy, modeling, intaglio and drawing as a temporary professor in the aforementioned School. After an exhibition of his early works in the photography studio of his brother, the French photographer Achilles Heitz, the Cabildo of Lanzarote granted a scholarship, the first granted by this institution, to study in Madrid. In 1926 he enrolled as a free student at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando and the School of Arts and Crafts in the capital of Spain. He alternates his artistic training with learning woodcarving with Ángel Garzón , and other masters as Capuz or Inurria Mateo . In those days contact the artistic bohemia, making friends in the circle of the Café de Oriente with Alberto Sanchez , whose influence will pervade his first wood carvings (organic sculptures inspired by plant forms closely linked to surrealism). Between 1927 and 1929, Lasso opted for this style of Cubist inspiration, which in those days sculptors shared the likes of Ángel Ferrant , Emiliano Barral , Mateo Hernández , Cristino Mallo , José Planes , Baltasar Lobo or canary also Plácido Fleitas . Participate with Alberto and Albacete painter Benjamin Palencia in the process of creating the "first School of Vallecas" with which eventually flirt the cream of artists, writers, architects, photographers and intellectuals of the cultural hotbed of those years before the Spanish Civil War . After the war, he takes refuge in Lanzarote. In 1941, his partner since 1934, Berki Clara gives birth to her only daughter, Rosalia. In those early postwar years was his friendship with a very young César Manrique .
Size: 4350px × 2737px
Location: Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Castillo de San José, Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
Photo credit: © Simon Haggett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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