Leaders from 2004
SETDART was born in 2004 trying to get a modern vision from the Art auction world with a clear target. Make the spanish market more popular , show the spanish Art worldwide and improve management and advice to customers by a experts team.
Rafael Canogar VS Luis Feito
Luis Feito was the penultimate witness of the artistic legacy that the El Paso group gave us. With his recent loss, Rafael Canogar becomes the only living representative of a time when informalism tra...
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Christ carrying the cross, symbol of redemption in the late Renaissance
The iconography of Christ carrying the heavy cross on his ascent to Mount Calvary experienced its own development throughout the history of art, as a result of its adaptation to the expressive peculia...
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The representation of “Ecce Homo” in the history of art
The importance that the "Ecce Homo" had for the history of art is demonstrated in our next auction on the 20th, in which up to five works on this subject are collected....
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Animal inspiration and fine jewelry, an inseparable tandem
You only have to look at the most important red carpets to notice how exotic fauna plays a leading role in many of the jewels of the world's major brands. Bracelets, rings, earrings and chokers are de...
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Color in Spanish sculpture
One of the most fascinating and valuable facets of sculpture in Spain is polychrome. When we stop before a piece like the Renaissance reliefs we must imagine that it is very likely that more than one...
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Agustín Cárdenas, sculpture on the edge of abstraction
The important sculpture that Setdart Subastas is putting up for sale these days was made in this especially exciting period for Agustin Cárdenas. The artist had been awarded a scholarship by the Cuban...
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Devotional altarpiece of the Maestro de Perea circle in Setdart.
The work of the Valencian Maestro de Perea was paradigmatic of the transition from the Spanish-Flemish period to the Renaissance. Active between 1490 and 1510, the name of the master derives from Pedr...
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The gypsy people, beyond the stereotype. José Mongrell and Joaquín Sorolla.
The fascination of artists with the wandering life of the gypsy people goes back a long time, but it was especially from the romantic era that this attraction transcended the mere search for picturesq...
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Tarrassó: the exuberance of color
The idyllic Mallorcan landscape has been a source of inspiration for many of the great Spanish artists who, like Casimiro Tarrassó, found on the island the ideal setting in which to experiment and cap...
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Julio Romero Torres painter par excellence of flamenco.
The work of Julio Romero de Torres occupies a similar place in the history of Andalusian painting to that occupied by García Lorca in poetic art, since in both the vernacular reached a depth of univer...
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Cartographic collection: illuminated engravings from the 18th century
It is not an exaggeration to affirm that geopolitical maps translate the mental maps of a certain society, of a certain historical moment. Cartography condenses an image of the world that goes far bey...
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The visceral creativity of Miquel Barceló
Miquel Barceló rose in 2011 as the best-priced living Spanish artist at auction. In fact, the resounding success that he achieved from the beginning led him to be compared with established artists suc...
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New SetdartMadrid space
Setdart presents its new space in Madrid located in the cultural heart of the capital, at Calle Velázquez 7. It is strategically positioned within what is known as the "Golden Mile", as well as next t...
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Picasso, the portrait as a personal diary
If there is a genre in which Picasso poured his most intimate side, it was undoubtedly the portrait. For it was always the people closest to him who would make up a gallery of portraits that, seen thr...
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The resounding success of Fernando Zóbel
Zóbel's recognition has crossed our borders, positioning itself as one of the booming artists in the international market and especially in the Asian market. Thanks to the moment of expansion that the...
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When the void is filled with mystical resonances. Jorge Oteiza and Basque sculpture.
The communion of spirit and matter governed the creative concept of Jorge Oteiza with an intensity rare in the history of modern and contemporary art, and this dialectical tension between form and emp...
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