Ernesto Icaza Sanchez

Ernesto Icaza Sanchez, whose full civil name is recorded as Trinidad Ernesto Timoteo Francisco Icaza Sanchez, was born on 26 January 1866 in Mexico City, one of four children of Joaquin de Icaza Mora and Maria de la Luz Victoria Sanchez Colomo. It is not documented whether he received formal art training or was self-taught.

He specialized in oil paintings of charros, horses, and ranching scenes, producing hundreds of such works over his career, a specialization that earned him the nickname "el charro pintor." In the 1910s he painted a set of nine murals for Hacienda La Cofradia near Aculco, and murals attributed to him also survive at Hacienda La Cienega del Rincon near Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. Pieces of his work are held by the Museo de la Charreria in Mexico City and the Museo de Historia Mexicana in Monterrey.

Icaza is deceased, but the exact year of his death is not settled in the available record. General reference sources, including Wikipedia, Google Arts and Culture, Wikidata, and commercial art listings, commonly give 1935. A separate market biography reports that "most experts agree" he died in 1926. No source available to Masterworks Academy supplies an exact day, month, or documented place of death, and this profile treats the year of death as unresolved rather than adopting any single figure.

Accessible English-language sources do not contain named critical commentary on Icaza's work from major art publications; the descriptive language that circulates, such as characterizations of him as a notable painter of charros, appears in unsigned dealer and reference copy rather than in attributed criticism. His standing is instead best measured through institutional presence: holdings at the Museo de la Charreria and the Museo de Historia Mexicana, both museums built around the ranching and charreria traditions his paintings depict.

No verifiable public auction record, work, price, house, or date, could be identified for Ernesto Icaza Sanchez as of 2026-07-10. Auction catalogs and dealer listings sometimes group his work under the shortened names "Ernesto Icaza" or "Ernesto Sanchez," and the surname Sanchez is shared by several unrelated contemporary artists, which raises real attribution risk when reviewing past sale listings. Absent a confirmed sale history, any auction-based valuation claim for this artist should be treated as unsupported.

This is a market with very little confirmed data. There is no catalogue raisonne, no confirmed current gallery or estate representation, and no verified auction record to benchmark against. The year of his death is genuinely disputed among credible sources, ranging from 1926 to 1935, which affects how any future scholarly catalogue would be dated and organized. Because his name appears in the market under several forms, Ernesto Icaza, Ernesto Icaza Sanchez, and Ernesto Sanchez, and because other unrelated artists share the Sanchez surname, provenance and documentation should be checked especially carefully before treating any listed work as securely attributed to this artist.