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Antonio López Torres Museum

Tomelloso, La Mancha, Ciudad Real

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Antonio López Torres Museum

Monument · Tomelloso, La Mancha, Ciudad Real

Antonio López Torres Museum

A museum opened in 1986 and dedicated to the work of the painter Antonio López Torres, born in Tomelloso, whose painting of the light and landscape of La Mancha shaped an entire realist school. Born and died in the town (1902-1987), uncle of the also painter Antonio López García, whom he introduced to the profession, he studied at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Ciudad Real and at the Real Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid, although he spent almost his entire career in his home town, combining painting with fieldwork. At his express wish, he donated to the municipality more than a hundred works, both canvases and drawings, now gathered in the museum, which has free admission, among which stand out Autorretrato (1921), from his youthful period, and mature works such as El pastor.

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