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.
Rafa Macarrón: the triumph of Spanish contemporary art
Spanish contemporary art is experiencing a new golden age thanks to artists who, like Rafa Macarrón, have reached the Olympus of the international art market....
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5 curiosities about Edgar Plans
If you would like to discover some of the events that have marked the life and work of Edgar Plans, be sure to read the following curiosities that follow...
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Ruins in the baroque
During the Baroque period in Spain the works of Juan de La Corte and other architectural painters encouraged the development of architecture itself, many of the court painters would receive commission...
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Mariano Fortuny: unparalleled virtuosity
Since Goya there has not been a Spanish painter with greater international projection than the one achieved by Mariano Fortuny in his short career. Within a generation of extraordinary painters who ra...
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Welcome Mr. Berlanga!
Walter Benjamin said that the figure of the born collector, along with that of the curious child and the urban flâneur share the same inquiring spirit. The German author was referring to those souls w...
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“Classical figures” by Torres Garcia, between Noucentisme and constructive art.
From a very early age, despite being born into a family of merchants and artisans with no cultural concerns, Torres García showed great artistic sensitivity. He was self-taught in creation, and it was...
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Two singular paintings by Picasso as an adolescent: “The Mass” and “El Cerrado Victoria”.
The two paintings that Setdart brings together on this occasion confirm the aforementioned doubly, since each of them offers us a different journey into the past of the master from Malaga, each of the...
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Roman urns. Art to honor ancestors
Roman funeral rites were part of one of their identity signs and defining features of their most ancient values and traditions (including those of the conquered peoples). The artistic expression on th...
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The good shepherd. One of the oldest iconographies in the West
The image of a shepherd tending his flock is perhaps one of the oldest images of humanity and at the same time a permanent source of artistic inspiration, whether in poetry, as in the bucolic themes o...
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Interview with visual artist Costa Gorel. “Investing in young art is an artistic act.”
At Setdart we are committed to young talent with the firm conviction of creating bridges between collectors and emerging artists. Among them, we present Costa Gorel (Moscow, 1993) whose work is devel...
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Use of jade in jewelry.
The etymology of the term jade dates back to the Spanish conquest of South and Central America. It means flank stone, referring to a stone that the Spanish conquistadors brought from America, and to w...
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Bernardí Roig: modern man facing the abyss
"Colour light exercise" is among the most emblematic works of Bernardí Roig's production, whose success and international recognition make him one of the most outstanding Spanish creators on the curre...
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Antoni Gaudí: art, religion and nature
The niche in the bidding on the 18th represents a clear example of the mysticism of Gaudí's legacy. Antoni Gaudí's work was a complete revolution in the field of architecture and decorative arts, go...
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Pen collecting and the art of calligraphy.
The style that a fountain pen gives off is not comparable to that of a ballpoint pen, the experience of writing by hand and seeing how the ink flows on the paper and the text acquires a unique charact...
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The context of an Empire. Renaissance art in Spain.
If we were to go back to 16th century Spain, we would find ourselves before one of the most incredible panoramas in history. In barely a hundred years, a group of kingdoms, traditionally in dispute, a...
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Asian art. Small treasures for collectors.
The Asian art auction that Setdart is holding on October 10 hides small treasures of great artistic value. Among the pieces tendered is a small cup dating from the Ming Dynasty, which ruled China betw...
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