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Jean Prouvé, avant-garde and commitment. Key figure of the modern movement

6 Mar 2023

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...

The revolution of prehistoric art. The first weapons, tools and idols

2 Mar 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Pere Cosp: from craft to art, from tradition to genuine invention

28 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Cosimo II, the patronage of the Medici family around 1600

27 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Jean Prouvé and Pere Cosp in the same spotlight: an intriguing play of light

27 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Chinese ceramic typologies, protagonists at Setdart

24 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Luis Fernández: portraits of a tragedy

22 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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

A private collection marked by the good taste of its owner is up for auction

21 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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

20 Feb 2023

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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...

Mimmo Rotella and décollage: the destruction of the image empire

16 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Olivier Bro de Comeres, a romantic painter in the East

10 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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....

Martín Chirino: the poetics of wrought iron

6 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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 multiple faces of Antonio Saura

2 Feb 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Egypt: The art of the unknown.

20 Jan 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Gino Rubert: the beauty of the sinister

16 Jan 2023

Andrea Domenech

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....

Francis Bacon’s Last Tango

13 Jan 2023

Andrea Domenech

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 and its synergies with the CoBrA group

2 Jan 2023

Andrea Domenech

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...

Antoni Tàpies: spirituality made art

30 Dec 2022

Andrea Domenech

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

5 reasons why watch collectors love the Rolex Daytona

22 Dec 2022

Andrea Domenech

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

Success and projection of current Spanish contemporary art

19 Dec 2022

Andrea Domenech

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

The jewels of the Kimono Joya. A collection inspired by oriental philosophy.

19 Dec 2022

Andrea Domenech

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....

Enric Casanovas: paradigm of Noucentisme

7 Dec 2022

Andrea Domenech

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

Rafa Macarrón: the triumph of Spanish contemporary art

24 Nov 2022

Andrea Domenech

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....

5 curiosities about Edgar Plans

21 Nov 2022

Andrea Domenech

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...

Ruins in the baroque

18 Nov 2022

Andrea Domenech

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...

Mariano Fortuny: unparalleled virtuosity

14 Nov 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...

Welcome Mr. Berlanga!

11 Nov 2022

Andrea Domenech

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...

“Classical figures” by Torres Garcia, between Noucentisme and constructive art.

10 Nov 2022

Andrea Domenech

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...

Two singular paintings by Picasso as an adolescent: “The Mass” and “El Cerrado Victoria”.

9 Nov 2022

Andrea Domenech

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...

Roman urns. Art to honor ancestors

5 Nov 2022

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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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