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Francisco Asorey
1914
Born	Francisco Asorey González 4 March 1889 Cambados, Spain
Died	2 July 1961 (aged 72) Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Nationality	Spanish

Francisco Asorey González (4 March 1889 – 2 July 1961) was a Spanish sculptor. Born in Cambados, Galicia, he was one of the most important Spanish sculptors of the early 20th century. He studied and began work as a religious sculptor in Sarrià, Barcelona, and continued in Barakaldo, Basque Country. He lived and worked in Madrid from 1909 to 1918; then in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, until his death in 1961.

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  Asorey's birth house in Cambados, Spain

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  Cabanelas monument, Pontevedra, Spain

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  Portrait of the violinist Manuel Quiroga, Pontevedra, Spain

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  Statue of Columbus, part of the Monument to Cuba,^[1] in El Retiro, Madrid

• El escultor Francisco Asorey, Ramón Otero Túñez, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1959