Francisco Antigua
Period: The Vanguard
1920 - 1983

Column Columna, ca 1960
wood sculpture
22 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches

Francisco (Pancho) Antigua was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1920. He studied art at San Alejandro Academy from 1938 to 1942, and again from 1956 to 1959. He was a founding member of the seminal Group “The Eleven,” (“Los Once”), a collective of painters and sculptors who pioneered a new style of poetic abstraction and non-figurative art in Cuba. This cadre of artists was active from 1953 to 1962, placing this mid-1950’s sculptural work by Francisco Antigua firmly in the most important period for this cultural movement. Francisco Antigua passed away in 1983.