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Mario Zamora Alcántara (1920-2017) Kudu 21 3/4in high (Modeled and cast in 1962.) image 1
Mario Zamora Alcántara (1920-2017) Kudu 21 3/4in high (Modeled and cast in 1962.) image 2
Mario Zamora Alcántara (1920-2017) Kudu 21 3/4in high (Modeled and cast in 1962.) image 3
Lot 33

Mario Zamora Alcántara
(1920-2017)
Kudu 21 3/4in high

26 February 2021, 13:00 PST
Los Angeles

Sold for US$3,570 inc. premium

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Mario Zamora Alcántara (1920-2017)

Kudu
inscribed 'M. ZAMORA A. / 62' (along the base)
bronze with dark brown patina
21 3/4in high
Modeled and cast in 1962.

Footnotes

Provenance
The Collection of Berry B. Brooks.

Mario Zamora Alcántara was born in Honduras and among the first students to attend the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (ENBA) in 1940. He studied under the Spanish sculptor Alfredo Ruiz Barrera, assisting him with a civic monument of a pair of bronze lions that flank La Avenida de los Leones in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula to this day. After received additional training in Nicaragua, he emigrated to Mexico in 1944 where he trained at La Academia San Carlos for four years. Zamora Alcántara pursued additional study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, working in the mediums of marble, bronze, and wood. He returned to Mexico to establish his career, while completing several public and private commissions in both Mexico and Honduras. 1

1 S. Torres, 'El impresionante legado del escultor hondureño Mario Zamora Alcántara,' El Heraldo, April 25, 2017 (https://www.elheraldo.hn/entretenimiento/1065714-466/el-impresionante-legado-del-escultor-hondureño-mario-zamora-alcántara)

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