Ignacio Pinazo Martínez
Valencia, April 30, 1883 – Godella, October 10, 1970
His father’s favourite model for childhood paintings, he linked his artistic and curatorial career to the recognition of his father’s legacy.
His early steps in sculpture were guided by his father, who sent him to Benlliure’s studio in Madrid to complete his training. After winning the scholarship from the Diputació de València, he travelled again to Madrid, Rome and Paris, where at the Musée du Louvre he reproduced the Iberian bust of the Dama de Elche for the Museum of Artistic Reproductions. After several years devoted professionally to bel canto, he returned to sculpture and was awarded a second medal at the National Exhibition of 1915. He qualified as a drawing teacher and lived in Albacete from 1917 to 1935, without giving up his professional studios in Godella and Madrid. In all three cities he became deeply involved in artistic and cultural circles. Recognised as a portrait sculptor, he created urban monuments and religious imagery. His aesthetic successively embraced regionalist and Art Deco influences, ultimately distilling intense classicist references.
