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Pareja (Couple), 1986
Tempera on paper
40 × 26.25 in, framed: 51.5 × 37.75 × 1.125 ″
Signature
Hand Signed in Tempera, lower right
In Pareja (Couple), Antonio López Sáenz stages an intimate human moment against the vast, poetic architecture of the harbor. Two of his iconic figures—which are best described as gently monumental—stand wrapped in one another at the edge of the water, their patterned garments echoing the rhythms and patterns of the sea and sky around them. Towering beyond them, the bow of a great ship rises like a…