OIL ON CANVAS STILL LIFE ASTERIO MAÑANOS
Antiques - Paintings
Reference: Z6229
Asterio Mañanós Martínez began his painting studies at the Municipal School of Drawing in Palencia with Justo María de Velasco and, from 1877, at the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, in the classes of Casto Plasencia and Casado del Alisal. He also frequently visited the Prado Museum, making copies of Velázquez. From 1881, he participated in the National Fine Arts Exhibitions. He alternated his stay between Madrid and Palencia, where he was commissioned to design the curtains and stage curtains for the Teatro de Recreo Palentino. In 1885 he received a grant from the Provincial Council of Palencia to further his painting training at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, which lasted a year. Back in his hometown, he decorated, together with Sabino Ojero, the Teatro de la Peña Palentina. He also opened, in collaboration with Isidro Mallol, a drawing academy, called "Casado del Alisal" in honour of his teacher. In 1889 he moved to Paris for a year to study under the brush of the pictorial realism of Léon Bonnat. Upon his return to Spain he set up his studio in Madrid, where he painted Doña Sancha before the corpse of her husband and the portrait of Tomás Bretón. In 1908, the Senate's Government Commission appointed him curator of the Upper House's works of art. The result of this experience are the large parliamentary paintings that have the sessions and halls of the Senate as their subject. One of his last canvases was an allegory of the Second Republic, the painting belongs to the Senate collection. The place and circumstances of his death are unknown, although it is known that he was alive in 1935.
· Size: int. 60x40 cms.
1.200 €
