Contemporary art

Luis Feito was the penultimate witness of the artistic legacy that the El Paso group gave us. With his recent loss, Rafael Canogar becomes the only living representative of a time when informalism tra...

The important sculpture that Setdart Subastas is putting up for sale these days was made in this especially exciting period for Agustin Cárdenas. The artist had been awarded a scholarship by the Cuban...

Miquel Barceló rose in 2011 as the best-priced living Spanish artist at auction. In fact, the resounding success that he achieved from the beginning led him to be compared with established artists suc...

If there is a genre in which Picasso poured his most intimate side, it was undoubtedly the portrait. For it was always the people closest to him who would make up a gallery of portraits that, seen thr...

Zóbel's recognition has crossed our borders, positioning itself as one of the booming artists in the international market and especially in the Asian market. Thanks to the moment of expansion that the...

Since ancient times, art has used symbolism to express an infinity of concepts and feelings hidden under the physical appearance of everything and everything around us. In this sense, the symbolic cha...

We often find simplistic definitions of Levantine Luminism, interpreting it as a Spanish translation of French Impressionism. A more in-depth look at the Valencian landscape phenomenon and at differen...

The rise of mass consumption would forever transform the concept of art. Until the 1940s, avant-garde art had been associated with conceptual or expressive depth, and was destined for the delight of a...

On numerous occasions, Salvador Dalí declared that eroticism was a divine thing, inseparable from mysticism, since Eros was a god . The genius of Ampurdán immersed himself fearlessly into the realm of...

The work of Juan Barjola, despite the fact that he went through different creative stages, was always traversed by a tragic feeling of life, which was translated into paintings pregnant with dramatic...

Just before traveling to Mali for the first time, while living in Paris in 1985, the Mallorcan artist made a series of still lifes (among them, the one that Setdart is putting up for auction on this o...

During the period of the Second Republic, poster design experienced a golden age under the guidance of Antoni Clavé. The cinematographic posters that the Catalan artist made between 1833 and 1835 repr...

Javier Mariscal became a important part of our culture because his creation of Cobi, the iconic figure that accompanied us in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. However, the artistic dimension of the o...

"The best thing about a photo is that it never changes, even when the people in it do" Andy Warhol. The king of pop art par excellence, Andy Warhol, anticipated several decades with his famous Polaro...