PABLO SERRANO AGUILAR (Crivillén, Teruel, 1908 - Madrid, 1985). "Guitar". Bronze sculpture, copy 50/100. Signed and justified by hand. Measurements: 20 x 12 x 12 cm. Pablo Serrano was a fervent admirer of Pablo Picasso, and this is demonstrated by the series of guitars of cubist affiliation that he made in homage to the genius of Malaga. Although Pablo Serrano's relationship with Cubism comes late, the fact is that the artist from Crivillén knew how to grasp and assimilate the Cubist guidelines to perfection. After beginning his training in Zaragoza, Serrano moved to Barcelona, where he studied sculpture until his departure for Montevideo in 1939. He worked between Uruguay and Argentina for twenty-five years. He won the First National Prize at the Montevideo Fine Arts Salon in 1944, 1951 and 1954, but did not return to Spain until his great triumph at the Montevideo Biennial in 1955, when he was awarded the Grand Prize. That same year he won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Hispano-American Biennial in Barcelona. In 1962 he exhibited twenty-three sculptures at the Venice Biennale to great critical acclaim. In 2003 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. Works by Pablo Serrano can be found in the museum that bears his name in Zaragoza, the Museo Reina Sofía, the Museo Nacional in Montevideo, the Museo San José in Uruguay, the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Paris, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the National Galleries in Rome and Budapest, the Rio Piedras University in Puerto Rico, the Brow University in Providence, the Clear Lake Clear Lake University in Clear Lake, and the University of Puerto Rico, Brow University in Providence, Clear Lake City University in Houston and the University of Zaragoza, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Venice, the Vatican Museum and the Middelheim in Antwerp, among many others.