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The most committed and ironic aspect of Equipo Crónica is up for auction next February 15. His intense career had a real impact on a Spanish artistic scene that at the beginning of the 60s and despite...

The Neapolitan and Roman countryside, as well as daily activities in beautiful towns in southern Italy, and also in its capital, inspired some of the best works of Ramón Tusquets....

Vanitas vanitatis are two terms related to a passage from Ecclesiastes: "Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas" ("Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity"), which tries to convey the uselessness of worldly...

Italy has been and is a point of reference in the field of interior decoration. Talking about Italy is undoubtedly synonymous with art and culture, but it is also synonymous with industry, innovation...

The fanciful architectures of the painting of whims will be tendered in Setdart next January 26. In this sense, the pair of canvases that we present at auction falls within the circle close to Codazzi...

It is known as maque or japanning, the finishing technique that originated as a European or Latin American imitation of Asian lacquerware, to decorate different surfaces by hand....

Eduardo Chillida's mastery in his facet as an engraver reflects the authentic artistic dimension of what was one of the great references of the European avant-gardes ....

Modern sculpture finds in Baltasar Lobo the roots of our Mediterranean tradition, in works such as "La source", where the female figure is conceived as a true Goddess of Antiquity....

The resurgence of Basque painting. The pictorial resurgence of the Basque Country shines through in our next auction on the 30th through some of its most representative architects In the last decad...

One of the main features of the Baroque is, without a doubt, its theatricality. An exaggerated vision of reality that powerfully appeals to the viewer, thus creating a clear, direct and deeply attract...

When speaking of viceregal art, reference is made to one of the stages of greatest artistic fruitfulness. It was common during modern times to collect treasures and exotic pieces from the Americas tha...

Great names in photography from the last decades such as Chapelle Pierre et Gills, Mary Ellen Mark meet at our next tender on December 15th. Since its invention in 1839th, photography became a funda...

Great names in Catalan painting such as Martí Alsina, Santiago Rusiñol, Eliseo Meifrèn or Joaquím Mir will meet at our next auction on December 14 It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that Ca...

Setdart dedicates for the first time a monographic auction to the artist Benjamín Palencia. Through a selection of more than thirty works, which reflect the different stages of the artist's life, the...

The auction presented by Setdart in homage to the city of Córdoba follows in the wake of the soleá. The specific objective of this proposal is not only to make known the art of an ancient city, either...

The draftsman par excellence of Cuban art Roberto Fabelo has established himself as a worthy continuation of the long artistic tradition developed around an aesthetic of the grotesque....

Julio Romero de Torres has become the quintessential ambassador of Cordovan art. Unlike the majority of artists who achieve fame and the recognition of the critics and the people posthumously, Julio m...

Throughout the history of art there have been great family sagas that have marked and defined the course of the artistic practice of their time. In the case of the Zubiaurre brothers , their work cont...

The extensive collection of the Catalan psychiatrist Joan Obiols-Vié, who made him a friend of some of the most renowned artists on the Catalan painting scene of the time, will go up for auction at Se...

Today, it is hard to believe that authentic works of art were ever thrown amidst demolition material. Fortunately, cities have always had urban gleaners with an enviable watchful eye. We must thank so...

The cult of the Virgin Mary has played a major role within the Christian religion and is also one of the most represented throughout the history of art. The devotion that from the origins of Christian...

The best version of Joaquin Sorolla's facet as a cartoonist shines through in the magnificent watercolor that will be tendered on December 1. The technical virtuosity that Joaquin Sorolla achieved wi...

"The impact that the destruction of the houses and the fields caused by the mass of lava descending like a river towards the sea was devastating. This destructive force of nature determines the smalln...

Work by two of the currently active Cuban artists with the greatest international prestige coincide in the next contemporary auction in Setdart. From different generations but united by a frank milit...

Concrete art finds in our next auction on November 16 a magnificent representation of the hand of two of its greatest exponents: Max Bill and Gotffried Honegger...

Antoni Tapies stars in our auction on November 16 with one of the unmistakable drawings he made during his assignment to the iconic avant-garde group, Dau al Set. The few occasions in which the more s...

The formal simplicity that Joan Miró always claimed as the guiding principle of his art hides behind it an extensive constellation of references, tributes and synergies with other artists, poets and m...

Theater and dance, mime and balé, are the worlds in which the prestigious sculptor Richard MacDonald has been immersing himself for decades to extract from them a renewed idea of beauty in movement, o...

The most social and committed aspect of art finds in the work of Vela Zanetti one of its greatest supporters. The canvas that we will tender on the 27th is undoubtedly a magnificent representation of...