Esteban Vicente

Esteban Vicente Prez , was an American painter born in Turgano, Spain. He was one of the first generation of New York School abstract expressionists.

Esteban Vicente was born in Turgano, Spain on January 20, 1903. His mother, Sofia Prez y lvarez came from an Asturian family and was born in Valladolid. His father, Toribio Vicente Ruiz, came from a military family near Salamanca and was an army officer. Esteban Vicente had two sisters and three brothers. He was the third child and second son. Vicentes father resigned his commission and moved his family to the capital, Madrid, where he worked as a buildings administrator for the Banco de Espaa so that the children could be educated at good Jesuit schools. Vicente was taken to the Museo del Prado by his father, an art enthusiast, almost every Sunday from the time he was four years old and began to draw when he was sixteen. He was expected to follow family tradition and join the army. After three months in military school he decided to become an artist.

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