Now in his late 80s, Antonio López García created paintings, drawings, and sculptures of meticulously observed landscapes, interiors, and portraits for decades. In this relief, the artist embraces a surreal quality, contrasting the weighty bronze medium and the weightless child, as well as the realistic perspective and unearthly situation depicted. Recalling Renaissance scenes of the Annunciation of Mary, where Mary received news she would become pregnant with Jesus, the narrative here is more ambiguous. Its everyday nature is underscored by the watering can and cat lazing in the foreground.

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