Ceramic sculpture by César Manrique. Signed on one side and on the base. Stamp of the César Manrique Foundation. Height: 28 cm In perfect condition. César Manrique (born 1919–1992) is a Spanish artist born in Arrecife, Lanzarote. He studied in the Academia de Bellas Artes of San Fernando in Madrid. In the early 1950s, he ventured into non-figurative art and studied the properties of matter, concerns that would predominate in his compositions, bonding him to Spain’s contemporary informalist movement. Despite the artist’s abstraction and matter-centrism, the plastic roots of his pictorial production lie in Lanzarote’s volcanic landscape, transformed into a sort of non-realist naturalism which, rather than a copy of the original, is an emotional translation of its significance. So, his new aesthetic ideal, called art-nature/nature-art, integrated different modes of artistic expression visible in his landscape art, most prominently: Jameos del Agua, El Río Lookout, Cactus Garden, and Timanfaya.