Present day
24-04-15
Presenting donation of a Lecuona oil painting
Antonio María Lecuona (1831-1907), pioneer of Basque genre painting
Besides being a forerunner of Basque popular genre painting, also known as costumbrismo, Antonio María Lecuona (Tolosa, Gipuzkoa, 1831-Ondarroa, Bizkaia, 1907) also spent three decades teaching an entire generation of artists born in the second half of the 19th century, icluding Anselmo Guinea, Adolfo Guiard, Manuel Losada, Francisco Durrio, Alberto and José Arrúe and Gustavo de Maeztu.
To mark the donation in 2014 of the painting entitled Basque Customs (1860), the Museum is staging this small exhibition with a dozen of Lecuona's paintings, a plaster bust of the artist by an unknown sculptor and a painting, on loan from the Prado, by Flemish artist David Teniers II (Antwerp, Belgium, 1610-Brussels, 1690).