Francisco Asorey

Francisco Asorey in 1914.

Francisco Asorey González (4 March 1889 – 2 July 1961) was a Spanish sculptor. Born in Cambados, Galicia, he was one of the most important Spanish sculptors of the early 20th century. He studied and began work as a religious sculptor in Sarrià, Barcelona, and continued in Barakaldo, Basque Country. He lived and worked in Madrid from 1909 to 1918; then in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, until his death in 1961.

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  Asorey's birth house in Cambados, Spain

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  Cabanelas monument, Pontevedra, Spain

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  Portrait of the violinist Manuel Quiroga, Pontevedra, Spain

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  Statue of Columbus, part of the Monument to Cuba,^[1] in El Retiro, Madrid

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• El escultor Francisco Asorey, , Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1959

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