Landscape with adobe and figure. An early pencil drawing by Francisco Zuniga. Signed and dated 1948, lower right. Sight measures 7.75 i. high x 13.5 in. wide, (with frame 14.75 in. high x 20.5 in. wide).

Internationally acclaimed sculptor and print-maker Francisco Zuniga was born in Costa Rica. He studied drawing, stone sculpture, and engraving at the School of Fine Arts in San Jose. In 1936, Francisco Zuniga left San Jose, Costa Rica, where he had studied drawing and worked as an assistant in his father's studio, a workshop which produced religious sculpture for the churches and convents in and around the city. His destination was Mexico City. It was from there that he would begin an illustrious career as a sculptor and draftsman. Of his style, Zuniga said, "I begin with an emotion, an attitude, a movement caught by chance, a woman wrapped in thought, sitting, walking, or perhaps leading a child.

Condition: In good condition with what appear to be two faint vertical creases in the paper at 4.75 in. and 9.5 in. from the left edge.