The work in auction represents the creative maturity with which Millares, at the hands of gallery owner Pierre Matisse, grandson of the brilliant painter Henry Matisse, reached the height of his international prestige.
Setdart has wanted to collaborate one more year by organizing the charity auction of Las Meninas which, scattered through the streets of Madrid as a public museum, have become a symbol and icon of the city.
The initiative, which this year celebrates its fifth edition, has two objectives: to bring art closer to ordinary people with the exhibition of sculptures for several months in public spaces in Madrid and a charitable objective, the collection of the auction sale of the works that will go to associations and NGOs that have been selected by the artists and sponsors, with special attention this year to those affected by the La Palma volcano.
In a display of creativity, the iconic furniture designer Carlo Bugatti becomes the main protagonist of our auction on March 23
Throughout the last century, design experienced a period of splendor that catalyzed endless movements that forever transformed our conception of furniture. In this sense, the irruption of Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century opened the way to new creative horizons.
Setdart presents this magnificent collection of watches treasured and preserved for more than forty years by the same collectors. The auction includes pieces by the hand of the most illustrious European builders from the 17th to the 20th century. The pieces that will be auctioned on March 24 are a perfect example and a clear reflection of exquisite craftsmanship and technical precision.
Setdart and the artist Gabriele Nuzzarello join the next day 29 in a charity auction whose proceeds will go to the fight against childhood cancer in favor of the Enriqueta Villavechia Children’s Oncology Foundation
Among the works up for bid, the presence of artists stands out, such as Joan Rebull, Manolo Hugué or Apel.les Fenosa , who were absolutely essential figures in the evolution of Catalan sculpture that was torn between the tradition and the modernity of the European avant-gardes.
Coming from a prestigious Barcelona private collection, the pieces at auction stand out for their museum quality , as can be seen from the fact that some of their specimens form part of the collections of museums as relevant as the MNAC, some of the specimens being.
Despite the perfectly distinctive style of each of its creators, there is a common thread that links the entire set and that It transports us, through more than 30 bronzes and terracottas, to our Mediterranean origins where, as we can see, the weight of Egyptian, Greek and Romanesque culture converges with the predilection for themes linked to the earth and the female figure.
The most Picassian work of Pere Pruna stands out among the set of works in tender next March 15
Around the figure of Picasso, a large number of Spanish artists gathered in Paris, whose beginnings are closely linked to the genius from Malaga. One of the most notable cases is that of Pere Pruna, whose success and recognition will forever be linked to the personal and professional bond with his friend and mentor Pablo Picasso.
Setdart offers us these days the possibility of contemplating this starry vault thanks to this important and extensive Spanish collection forged between 1970 and the 1990s. through her we can take a tour of one of the most splendid chapters in the history of glass art; focusing on that glassware that explored the expressive possibilities of Art Nouveau and Art Deco in the leading geographical enclaves in its development such as France (Nancy), the Czech Republic (Bohemia), Italy (Murano) or Sweden (Orrefors)
For the occasion we have gathered more than two hundred pieces (vases, centerpieces, decanters, paperweights, lamp stands, ashtrays, small sculptures…) signed by the most renowned glass manufacturers. Its exquisite workmanship and avant-garde concept is in keeping with the time in which they were made.
A decisive creator in the configuration of the Spanish avant-garde, Eduardo Úrculo reached the summit of the so-called new figuration, thanks to pop art, a style in which his work manifested itself with a more daring and personal language.
After some beginnings dominated by the social expressionism of denunciation, Úrculo suffered a creative crisis that led him in 1966 to settle in the mecca of the hippy movement that at that time was Ibiza, an island where he undertook a new personal and creative stage that would mark a point of inflection and rupture with his previous work. A year later, during a trip to Stockholm, he discovered what he had been looking for so hard. The anthological exhibition where he could see the works of Warhol, Linchestein and Rauschenberg meant the beginning of his idyll with the postulates of pop art, revealing through him a neofiguration in which he could channel his most vital, playful, and ironic facet.
The watercolor made in 1965, up for auction next March 8, brings us closer to the irresistible magnetism of the Miró universe. Recognized as one of the great universal geniuses of contemporary art, Joan Miró was above all an artist committed to his time and to his particular vision of the creative act, whose essence remained unchanged. The radically introspective character of the artist and his reticence before any artistic dogma, placed a young Miró in no man’s land who, far from bowing down to the attacks he received and giving in to any passing fad, remained firm in his conviction that achieve a universal art that with its own voice would express that substantial and eternal that starts from the depths of our roots .
The Mannerist style, which emerged in Italy around the 1530s, represented a paradigm shift with respect to the Renaissance where the proportion, balance and harmony traits that until then had defined artistic creation lost their total hegemony by virtue of artistic intentionality. and expressiveness. Once the knowledge of human anatomy, perspective and color was consolidated, the artists and their workshops advanced on their path towards experimentation, thereby seeking greater drama and distinction in their compositions that would emerge in the Baroque period.
The creativity of post-war art is brought together in our auction by the hand of some of its most decisive movements of the 20th century. The diversity and cultural brilliance that emerged after the devastation caused by the Second World War represents one of the most fertile and groundbreaking creative periods in our history. The multitude of artistic expressions that broke into the international scene at a frenetic pace are the manifestation of a vital need of the human being to face the barbarism that he himself had caused. After the profound changes brought about by the war came the end of the artistic utopias that the historical avant-gardes had proclaimed.
The most committed and ironic aspect of Equipo Crónica is up for auction next February 15. His intense career had a real impact on a Spanish artistic scene that at the beginning of the 60s and despite the irruption of Informalism in the previous decade, still remained under the yoke of the regime’s interests.
The Neapolitan and Roman countryside, as well as daily activities in beautiful towns in southern Italy, and also in its capital, inspired some of the best works of Ramón Tusquets.
Vanitas vanitatis are two terms related to a passage from Ecclesiastes: “Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas” (“Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity”), which tries to convey the uselessness of worldly pleasures in the face of the certainty of death and the absurd attempt of man to resemble God, forgetting that he is a mortal and finite being. Vanitas is a Latin term that we can translate as vanity, in the sense of insignificance.
Italy has been and is a point of reference in the field of interior decoration. Talking about Italy is undoubtedly synonymous with art and culture, but it is also synonymous with industry, innovation and luxury. In this sense, the concept of Italian design furniture is intrinsically linked to high-quality furniture, with elegant and clean lines, but also with large doses of creativity and modernity. Therefore, the “Made in Italy” design is distinctive of exclusivity and avant-garde in both technique and aesthetics.
Eduardo Chillida’s mastery in his facet as an engraver reflects the authentic artistic dimension of what was one of the great references of the European avant-gardes .
Modern sculpture finds in Baltasar Lobo the roots of our Mediterranean tradition, in works such as “La source”, where the female figure is conceived as a true Goddess of Antiquity.
The resurgence of Basque painting.
The pictorial resurgence of the Basque Country shines through in our next auction on the 30th through some of its most representative architects
In the last decades of the 19th century, the city of Bilbao began the path that will make it one of the most outstanding cultural centers in our country. This paradigm shift in which painting will play a fundamental role will be brought about by a series of socioeconomic factors that will define the future of Basque art. Along with economic development and the creation of artistic infrastructures, the abolition of the charters gave rise to a desire to claim and preserve their own, which crystallized in painting through the theme of manners, understood as a means to create Basque art with its own entity. .
One of the main features of the Baroque is, without a doubt, its theatricality. An exaggerated vision of reality that powerfully appeals to the viewer, thus creating a clear, direct and deeply attractive message. The light in the painting is reminiscent of that of a stage, it is capable of directing the gaze towards what is important and charging it with the necessary drama. The strong light contrasts produce volumes with greater depth and dynamism, achieving the sensation of escaping from the canvas.
When speaking of viceregal art, reference is made to one of the stages of greatest artistic fruitfulness. It was common during modern times to collect treasures and exotic pieces from the Americas thanks to the trade and abundant traffic of art from the New World. In turn, the emphasis placed on promoting the artistic and cultural field resulted in the birth of new teachers who stood out for their innovation and technical quality. The distance from the metropolis, together with the different social realities that were taking place, gave the New Spain baroque its own characteristics.
Funerary and votive sculpture, architectural elements, jewelry and domestic props from ancient cultures and the main civilizations that make up the pillars of universal history, coincide in the archeology auction, currently in the making, which is being held in Setdart.
We will travel, if we enter this collection, all the latitudes of the world and we will travel through the centuries, from the Egypt of the Low Era and the China of the Warring States period, passing through Magna Grecia, Etruria and Rome, crossing seas towards Mesoamerica and its pre-Columbian art
Great names in photography from the last decades such as Chapelle Pierre et Gills, Mary Ellen Mark meet at our next tender on December 15th.
Since its invention in 1839th, photography became a fundamental communication tool for society, but also a key element in the future of the fine arts.However, its consideration and value as an artistic practice in its own right has evolved and taking hold as photographic procedures and techniques progressed. In this way, while at the beginning the known as dagerrotype was created as a tool for science, later it was the element that once and for all freed the pictorial practice from its mimetic function until it became during postmodernity the ideal means to convert in fetish any object.
Great names in Catalan painting such as Martí Alsina, Santiago Rusiñol, Eliseo Meifrèn or Joaquím Mir will meet at our next auction on December 14
It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that Catalan landscaping developed as a fully autonomous genre. This stage that lasts until the beginning of the 20th century will be recognized as a true vital golden age in the renewal of a genre that until then had been relegated to the background as a mere accompaniment to the great mythological and biblical themes. Since then, landscape painting has undergone a continuous evolution, experimenting and incorporating the new artistic trends that emerged throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Undoubtedly, the intense production of this singular period gave birth to a progressive break with academic conventions to embark on the path towards creative freedom that modernity proclaimed.
Through the selection of works tendered on December 14 we can trace a journey through the evolution of the genre from its most traditional conception by the hand of precursors of Spanish realism such as Martí Alsina until reaching one of the highest representatives of post-impressionism such as Joaquim Mir.
Setdart dedicates for the first time a monographic auction to the artist Benjamín Palencia. Through a selection of more than thirty works, which reflect the different stages of the artist’s life, the auction provides a global and in-depth vision of the artist’s career, completed with an exhibition located at the headquarters of Setdart Madrid, calle Velázquez 7 , and a video in which Ramón Palencia, a relative of the artist, brings us closer to the most personal Palencia. The bidding for the works will take place on December 14.
