VICENTE NAVARRO ROMERO (Valencia, 1888 - Barcelona, 1978). "Pietà". Sculpture in carved and polychrome wood. Signed on the front of the pedestal. Presents faults in the polychrome. Measures: 70 x 39 x 25 cm. Vicente Navarro offers us a religious sculptural group that represents the theme of the Pietà: the Virgin seated with the dead Christ in her lap, a theme of deep dramatism not only because of the subject itself, but also because its composition evokes the images of the Virgin with the Child Jesus in her lap. Sculptor and painter, Vicente Navarro was trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia, where he was a disciple of López Mezquita. He was a regular participant in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, being awarded the first medal in 1915. After traveling to Rome on a scholarship, in 1918 he obtained a teaching post at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona. He was an academician of San Carlos, San Jorge and San Fernando, obtained the National Prize of Painting and Sculpture in 1947 and a medal of honor in the Regional Exhibition of Valencia in 1935. He is represented in several museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid and the Army Museum.