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"Valencia Beach, illustrates Joaquín Sorolla's mastery in sketching, concentrating in a reduced space the purest and most vivid vibration of light and color of the Valencian beaches. The technical vir...

Setdart wanted to collaborate once again with the organization of the charity auction of the iconic Meninas, whose image invades the streets of Madrid every year as a public museum, becoming a symbol...

The museum quality of "Danza de odaliscas" reveals the best version of Francisco Pradilla's orientalist production. The European colonial expansion in North Africa during the 19th century was decisiv...

Jean Prouvé, who earned an irreplaceable place in modern design for having devised avant-garde solutions for disadvantaged groups in the impoverished post-war context, has paradoxically become one of...

On March 9, Setdart will hold one of its longest-running auctions in terms of the dating of the pieces. Its wide range includes a careful selection of weapons dating from the Lower Paleolithic (whose...

Number 18 Fontanella Street, a discreet street in Barcelona's Eixample, was home to a small frame and gilding workshop in the early twentieth century that over the decades would become an unavoidable...

The name of the city of Florence directly evokes the cradle of the Renaissance, the cultural splendor under the rule of the Medici family. The names of Donatello, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Boticelli, ju...

Setdart's March 8 auction gives us the opportunity to make a comparative study between key pieces of both figures. Let's take two lamps that are currently out to tender, two landmark lamps in the hist...

On March 2, a notorious collection of oriental pieces will be auctioned at Setdart, where Ming and Qing porcelain will take center stage. Tradition and renovation go hand in hand to offer us a privile...

The tender of the 4 charcoal portraits of Luis Fernandez sheds light on one of the most brilliant, yet unknown stages of the artist....

What must a piece have to make a collector fall in love with it? Beauty, rarity and state of conservation are the main qualities. The private collection presented by Setdart is a perfect example of d...

Jordi Pintó: between utopia and reality Jordi Pintó's utopian geometries come to Setdart with one of his characteristic urban views. Habitual for decades of the national art scene, the painter born...

The fruitful relationship between cinema and the plastic arts beats in the creative imagination of artists such as Picasso, Dalí, Chagall or Mimmo Rotella, who found in the seventh art their true insp...

The story of Olivier Bro de Comeres seems like the prelude to Lawrence of Arabia or some heroic novel. His biography has gone unnoticed for more than a century, until today....

Throughout the 20th century, sculpture underwent probably the most radical revolution in its history. The aesthetic fracture brought about by the avant-garde also brought about a reformulation in the...

The artist, who was recognized as one of the great introducers in Spain of abstract expressionism and gestural informalism, once again becomes an exceptional protagonist of our auction, this time with...

On January 24 Setdart will be bidding on a large selection of archaeological pieces. Vestiges of numerous cultures are brought together in this auction, testifying to the cultural richness and artisti...

The unique style of Gino Rubert, internationally recognized after being chosen to illustrate the famous literary trilogy Milenium, stars in our contemporary art auction on December 18....

One of many nights when Francis Bacon, already a revered figure, was going to the Colony club in Soho, he was approached by a young man whose shabby appearance was clearly out of keeping with the sele...

Walasse Ting began as an abstract art artist, but most of his works since the mid-1970s have been referred to as figurative-precious art. With a marked style based on the strength of color, his work i...

"Muralla negra" reveals the philosophical and spiritual charge that underlies the work of Antoni Tàpies. Bidding on December 3...

Watch collecting is an activity that is clearly on the rise and the Rolex Daytona is one of the most desired models by collectors....

The greatest names in current Spanish art will meet at our next auction on December 19....

On September 23, Setdart presents at auction the collection "The Jewels of the Kimono Joya", a selection of 27 pieces of jewelry designed by contemporary artist Carlos Muñiz....

The monumental "Flora" by Enric Casanovas in tender next 13th represents the paradigm of the noucentista sculptural practice....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...