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How do we imagine a house in 16th or 17th century Spain? Would it really be like we see in movies or novels? Unconsciously, we are engraved with the splendor and luxury of the palaces of the monarchs,...

The importance of Antonio Saura in the renewal of Spanish post-war art is clearly unquestionable. Consolidated as one of the great introducers of abstraction in Spain, Saura is also one of the greates...

The heterogeneous forms of digital art, created in symbiosis between man and machine set the trend in 2022. In our next auction on September 27, we present a selection of 12 digital works that will lo...

Following Lita Cabellut's trajectory, we can affirm that her works are the result of her own passion for life and the need to delve into the complexity of a human soul, whose passions, fears and contr...

The millenary tradition of ceramic art is experiencing a period of splendor thanks to artists such as Barceló, who have contributed both to perpetuate and renew it....

Considered one of the oldest decorative arts, its relative fragility and the difficulty of its creation have turned this art into a symbol of quality and wealth. Considered luxury objects, tapestries...

Seventeenth century tapestries, baroque sculptures, high period ceramics, portraits, paintings on glass, table clocks, niches, important polychrome olotine beds of the eighteenth century ... are some...

Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the '92 Barcelona Olympics, Setdart will tender on September 8 two unpublished works by Julian Schnabel and A.R Penck made for the world's greatest sporting eve...

Setdart Subastas will auction on September 13, among many other pieces, Juan José Ontalva's collection of pocket watches, among which we find a wide range of periods, schools and precious metals. Due...

How could we distinguish a portrait of a 17th century knight from that of a saint? The tradition of Christian art for millennia has taken on a tool to help us differentiate it and thus recognize the m...

Works such as "Cala Lluch Alcari" by Tarrassó show the undoubted attraction that the Mallorcan landscape has exerted in the artistic panorama of the early twentieth century....

Pocket watches have always been considered a symbol of dignity and wealth, being an indispensable accessory for the wealthy classes. Clocks first appeared in France in the 15th century, although the...

The richness, complexity and stark sensitivity that hides the work of Victor Mira, translucent in the set of works to be tendered on September 8....

Summer is for many of us synonymous with free time, time to discover and, in short, time to do all those activities that our day-to-day lives make difficult for us. Therefore, from Setdart we want to...

The Spanish coast is one of the most attractive places for tourists from all over the world. In addition to the climate, it has true archaeological jewels and interesting vestiges of the ancient cultu...

If you are in Barcelona this August, do not miss the opportunity to enjoy some of the cultural proposals that the city has to offer. From Setdart we encourage you to spend a vacation full of art with...

Andalusian genre painting takes center stage at Setdart's August 31 auction. Man has always been fascinated by those exotic and distant things, especially by the oriental world. Cultures such as Arab...

From Setdart we wanted to combat this hot August with a series of auctions dedicated to all those intrepid people who want to explore and discover the next treasures of their collection. On August 1,...

5 REASONS COLLECTORS LOVE PATEK PHILIPPE Patek Philippe collectors are not like other watch collectors. They don't like to attract attention, which is why they love the understated elegance of Pate...

A couple of decades ago a new and revolutionary sector landed in the art market: Art Toys collecting. Far from being a passing fad, everything indicates that this form of artistic expression has come...

Egypt is undoubtedly an inexhaustible source of mysteries yet to be solved. There is a unique period in history, perhaps one of the most enigmatic and unresolvable, Amarna. About three thousand seven...

The great renovator of post-war Catalan sculpture and one of the most outstanding Spanish sculptors of the national scene of the twentieth century, stars in our July 12 auction with one of his iconic...

Each Setdart auction is a new project carefully curated by our experts. In our contemporary and current art auctions you will always find the recognized names, but we also bet on young talents. We als...

The set of more than 70 pieces presented at auction on July 5, from an important Catalan private collection, reflect the splendor that the applied arts of glass, porcelain and ceramics lived from the...

Through the female figure Joan Rebull, recovered the purest essence of our Mediterranean identity....

The discovery of the so-called Ötzy, the Iceman, a 5000-year-old body in the Italian Alps with an earring in his ear, shows us that earrings have been part of different civilizations since at least th...

What words could define the design? Beauty, ergonomics, functionality, simplicity... A good design is more complex than a functional object, and its definition is broader than a merely aesthetic objec...

The name of the city of Naples has been resonating for almost three thousand years, and for good reason it is one of the oldest and most cultural in the world. From Greeks, to Etruscans and Romans amo...

Antoni Clavé, Francisco Bores and a long etcetera of Spanish artists found in the Paris of the historical avant-gardes, the fertile soil in which to develop their work. The unparalleled cultural hotb...

Dark eyes full of strength stare at the viewer. They look almost like a beacon within the canvas, totally enveloped in shadows where the brush strokes of the wig and dress intertwine with the backgrou...