The Staircase
1967 · Pencil and wax on paper on board
14 7/8 x 19 1/2" (37.8 x 49.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Antonio López García
Spanish, 1936
WA-00028235
PaintingFigurationHyperrealism
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9
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A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Antonio López García is a Spanish painter and sculptor born in 1936 whose work is rooted in meticulous observation of everyday domestic and urban environments. Working primarily in oil paint and bronze, he constructs hyperrealistic compositions of ordinary objects, architectural details, and interior spaces rendered with obsessive precision. His practice emerged in postwar Spain as a deliberate counter to abstraction, insisting on the perpetual relevance of descriptive figuration and the physical world as subject matter.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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