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Spanish artists at the School of Paris

16 Jun 2022

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...

The look that hides an old attribution to Goya

14 Jun 2022

Andrea Domenech

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...

The journey to eternity in ancient Egypt

10 Jun 2022

Andrea Domenech

Egypt could not be understood without its vision of the Hereafter, the search for eternity after death. Much of the testimonies that have come down to us are a reflection of that idea of life. Religio...

Raoul Dufy: reinterpreting isms

8 Jun 2022

Andrea Domenech

Impressionistic? Cubist? fauvist? There are many labels with which Raoul Dufy's work has been defined and delimited. But the truth is that the painter of Norman origin traveled through these isms with...

The evolution of the altarpiece until the Renaissance

8 Jun 2022

Andrea Domenech

The origins of Christian places of worship were not buildings dedicated exclusively to prayer, but a chamber within a building, such as a room or a small corner, intended for that purpose. Here, one o...

Flora and fauna source of inspiration for the art of goldsmithing

4 Jun 2022

Andrea Domenech

Since ancient times, nature has been a source of inspiration for man. From it, all the artists have drunk for the elaboration of their works, and the goldsmiths could not be less. In the beginning, bo...

Eve: the first femme fatale

2 Jun 2022

Andrea Domenech

Throughout the history of art, the biblical figure of Eve has been the subject of countless representations whose iconography has built and sustained a certain archetype of the female gender. The epis...

The rebirth of the garland in painting

24 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

Originally from Greek and Roman antiquity, the garland as an artistic element became popular again in northern Europe thanks to the Flemish painter Jan Brueghel the Elder, who began to resume the use...

Mestizo art and devotion in America

23 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

One of the pillars of the Christian faith is the conviction that human beings were created in the image and likeness of God. If we transfer this idea to the world of art, we observe that it is done in...

Peter Zimmerman’s Metapainting

23 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

The work of Peter Zimmerman is considered one of the most outstanding contributions to international pictorial abstraction Throughout the history of art, there have been many great artists who have ra...

Edgar Plans: the triumph of the artist with the soul of a child

19 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

On May 24, the artist from Gijón, who has managed to conquer the current art scene, arrives for the first time at our auction Picasso claimed that learning to paint like Renaissance artists took only...

The ages of Joan Ponç: from youthful surrealism to the harbingers of maturity

18 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

The set of works that we present at the Contemporary Art auction on May 24 highlights the figure of Ponç as one of the most fascinating and enigmatic artists of the second half of the 20th century in...

Setdart in “Comando Actualidad” (RTVE)

6 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

Last April, Setdart was the protagonist of the television program Comando Actualidad «El business of art» of RTVE....

Pedro de Mena – Master of the Passion

3 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

The imagery of the Spanish 17th century has always been an object of worship and devotion, since beyond its artistic purpose, they were created to bring parishioners closer to faith. In recent years,...

Medieval art under the gaze of the Vanguards

2 May 2022

Andrea Domenech

From the last years of the 19th century, the foundations and formulations under which figuration had been founded began to falter. until generating a change of orientation that left behind its traditi...

The sculptural puzzles of Miguel Ortiz Berrocal

28 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

Miguel Ortiz Berrocal reached the pinnacle of his career thanks to his iconic removable sculptures Martín Berrocal came to sculpture by chance. The wishes of his father, a doctor by profession, for h...

Treasures of an Empire: Important Roman Glass Collection

27 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

The collection that Setdart auctions comes from the Hotel Cambón in Paris and from an old Spanish private collection and is a unique testimony of the art of glass in Roman times. Accustomed to seeing...

Roberto Fabelo in his most intimate and personal artistic facet

22 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

The pair of watercolors in tender next May 3 shows us that above all the Cuban artist is a virtuoso of drawing The creative impulse of the plastic arts in Cuba during the decade of the forties of the...

The sky in the old painting

21 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

Baroque images that are so profound, dynamic and theatrical tend to focus the viewer's gaze on the main character or scene, thus leaving the setting itself as an element that often goes unnoticed. Tod...

Guadalupe de Moncada: The first female painter of Mexico

14 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

We hardly know of two autograph works by the first documented painter in the history of Mexico, Guadalupe de Moncada, which reveals how history has treated the female role in art. The protagonist of o...

Pablo Picasso; Reinterpreting the myth.

12 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

The Antonio Orzaez collection has three of Pablo Picasso's most personal and revealing works. A collage from 1957 and two photomontages resulting from the series "Variaciones de las Meninas" which was...

Antique perfume bottles, object of desire for collectors. Auction April 25

12 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

The perfumery firms have not only commissioned their formulas from relevant "noses": they have also ordered the bottles from great craftsmen and consecrated artists. The result is pieces of great valu...

Cultural plans for Easter

8 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

The Easter holidays are here and with them the time to enjoy all those plans that we have been waiting for for a long time. Among all of them, cultural leisure will always be a great option to escape...

Concha Barrios, collection of an antiquarian

7 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

Setdart Auctions is pleased to present the private collection of Concha Barrios that will be put up for auction on April 19, 2022. Concha Barrios began her career in the art world with a gallery on Cl...

Antonio Orzaez; The art photographer

6 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

Setdart presents at auction, on April 20 and 21, the unpublished collection of photographer Antonio Orzáez made up of more than three hundred pieces that bring us closer personally and intimately to t...

Mariano Fortuny: A talent that was ahead of his time

4 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

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...

Women artists deservedly recognized

1 Apr 2022

Andrea Domenech

Two great references of contemporary art such as Soledad Sevilla and Cristina Iglesias share the limelight in our auction on April 5. The history of art has featured countless women whose talent and s...

Alex Katz: The playful art that anticipated Pop Art

28 Mar 2022

Andrea Domenech

At 94 years old and converted into one of the cult figures of American art of the 20th century, Alex Katz maintains intact that creative impulse guided by the conscience of someone who knows that he c...

The committed and rebellious aesthetic of Manolo Millares

25 Mar 2022

Andrea Domenech

The work in auction represents the creative maturity with which Millares, at the hands of gallery owner Pierre Matisse, grandson of the brilliant painter Henry Matisse, reached the height of his inter...

Charity auction Meninas Madrid 2022 “A window to the world” March 29, 2022

24 Mar 2022

Andrea Domenech

Setdart has wanted to collaborate one more year by organizing the charity auction of Las Meninas which, scattered through the streets of Madrid as a public museum, have become a symbol and icon of the...

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