At the end of the 19th century, while different experimental artistic tendencies applied to landscape painting were making their way in Paris, Vienna or Brussels (impressionism, pointillism, etc.), in much of the Spanish territory art continued to be subjected to the rigid academy. In this sense, in the Basque context, the figure of Darío de Regoyoss would be indispensable for new trends to penetrate further here in the Pyrenees.
Symbol of elegance and distinction the jewelry company ALDEBERT, It was founded in Paris in 1875. Eugine Aldeber, together with his wife Jeanne, started a project based on the creation of jewelery with exclusive designs, where quality and know-how prevailed, added to a personal and innovative aesthetic. Essential precepts to turn your firm into a luxury brand. They were pioneers in conceiving jewelery as an essential element of definition of women as a concept, and not only as a complement to their attire. They understood the use of the jewel, as a distinctive symbol, which allowed to describe a modern, cosmopolitan and elegant woman. For which carried out various collaborations with great designers and jewelers of the time such as Jeanne Lanvin, Coco Chanel, or Jeanne Toussaint.
It can be stated that Sorolla acts as a mirror of the woman of his time: from high society ladies, to prostitutes and peasant women, the painter gives breath and life to each of them, accentuating their individuality beyond the physical. or. The influence of the Valencian not only makes itself felt in the peninsula, but also reaches fame during his life even in distant countries such as Argentina.
The portrait of “Madrileña con Mantón” has a particularly interesting origin It was brought to Argentina by the Catalan businessman Don José Artal y Mayoral (1862 – 1918), a crucial figure for the dissemination of Spanish art in the then flourishing city of Buenos Aires.
According to documentation kept in the Sorolla museum, it is stated that the work “Madrileña con Mantón” It is received and later exhibited by Artal in the first exhibition of Spanish painters in Buenos Aires in 1898 . This exhibition was so successful that Artal organized two more and became the artist’s intermediary, thus receiving prestigious orders for portraits and paintings for large Buenos Aires families.
Among the rocks and the waves of Ondarreta beach in San Sebastian emerges the famous “Peine del viento”, one of the monumental public sculptures with which the artistic voice of Eduardo Chillida made itself felt throughout a continent European, in full transformation. The premises on which the Basque sculptor built his creation seem determined by the landscape and the relationship with the natural environment where he spent his childhood. Next to the sea, the reflections around the concepts of space and time crystallized under which he founded a work forged in the brotherhood of the eternal rhythms that he found observing the tides of the bay of San Sebastian. However, it would be unfair to limit only to sculpture the international prestige and recognition that the San Sebastian artist achieved, whose work is also celebrated for the use of multiple artistic practices that, like collage, he developed throughout his vast career. Through works such as the one that concerns us here, we construct a deeper and more complex story that sheds light on the true magnitude of the creative universe of which it has been, one of the key figures in the radical transformation that Spanish art experienced during the twentieth century.
The Art Deco style was revisited in the eighties by renowned cabinetmakers and new promises of national design such as Antonio Casdesús and Inmaculada Fajardo Palacín. A prestigious Levantine company with more than thirty years as a cabinetmaker’s workshop welcomes the best interior designers in the Spanish field whose work is characterized by the making of unique pieces inspired by the best Art Deco.
They are pieces that combine artisan tradition and high technology, with designs that contain all the aesthetic beauty of Art Deco while adapting to a new concept of contemporary living space.