Oil on wood panel, with continuous gray fence style frame, signed lower right to recto, and signed and dated 1970 to verso.

31.75 x 30.5 in.

Deaccessioned from and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro

Gifted to Weatherspoon Art Museum in 1976 by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, of Great Neck, NY, who acquired it from the artist.

Francisco's style, developed during the 1950s, centered on figures, often in Spanish dress, isolated against colorful landscapes. In New York, Mr. Sainz became acquainted with many members of the New York School of painters, including Willem de Kooning, Lester Johnson and Alfred Leslie. Sainz also painted portraits of saints and historical figures, including George Washington, General Franco and Grandma Moses. In the 1960s he had several solo shows with the Dorsky Gallery in Manhattan, including a show in 1969 of painted masks that he had started to make a few years earlier. His most recent exhibition was at the Morgan Rank Gallery in East Hampton in 1993.

Good estate condition, some smudging and small areas of paint loss to frame.