Isidro Antequera López de Haro (1926)
Characters with horses

Characters with horses
Oil on canvas with modern hessian-lined frame. Signed in the lower right corner: ‘I. Antequera’.

Measurements: 20 x 24.5 cm (support); 36.3 x 40 x 2 cm (frame).

Born in La Solana (Ciudad Real), he was the son of a painter and photographer, making his first exhibitions around 1945. His first works include a mural for the parish church in Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real). He travelled to Madrid, where he worked for Cifesa and Sevilla Films under the guidance of the film decorator Enrique Alarcón, while simultaneously studying painting under the guidance of what may be considered his teachers, such as José Frau, and especially Enrique Bráñez and Carlos Sáinz de Tejada, learning from the latter two at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios and the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, respectively.

Linked to the world of literature, he was a personal friend of Juan Alcaide and Prados López.

He exhibited in the Sala Marabini (Madrid) and in Ciudad Real, under the patronage of the Instituto de Estudios Manchegos. After travelling around the countryside of Extremadura, he returned to Madrid where he met the artists Daniel Vázquez Díaz and Gregorio Prieto.

He was a personal friend of the Murcian painter Antonio Hernández Carpe, with whom he worked together on several pictorial murals for new churches in La Mancha built after the Spanish Civil War (some of Carpe's paintings are on sale in this same auction).

His career links him with exhibitions of his work in National Exhibitions, works for the National Library of Spain, intervention in the main altar of the parish of Campo de Criptana, exhibitions in Galería Firenze, a scholarship in the Juan March Foundation, his direction of the magazine Hito, to directing the Art Courses in Almagro of the Cultural Foundation of Castilla-La Mancha, mainly.