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Pepe Gonçalves

Don José Gonçalves García
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 1875 pioneer of football in the Canary Islands
(Biography)

Tony Gallardo
1954/1994

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria / Pepe Gonçalves

Description

Bronze bust.

Inscription(s)

el real club victoria
a su fundador
PEPE ÇONÇALVEZ
pionero del futbol canario
1894 - 1934
las palmas de gran canaria
29 de octubre de 1994

tony gallardo 1954

Signature

1954 | A. Gallardo

Annotation

In 1954 a plaster bust was inaugurated, in 1994 this is replaced by a bronze copy. The spelling of Gonçalves on the pedestail is erroneously 'Çonçalves'.

Artist

Tony Gallardo (Las Palmas GC 1929 - Las Palmas GC 1996), Spanish-Canarian sculptor and politician from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, lived since the 1956 until the 1980s in Venezuela (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Catálogo de bienes histórico-artístico del Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (PDF on-line).
Esculturas en Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1 P.
La Estrella que nos guia, Esculturas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (3a parte).
Juan Álvarez Lasso, Bustos, esculturas y monumentos en la ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Segunda parte (2011) (on-line), p. 269-272.

Location (N 28°8'53" - W 15°25'50") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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