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“LABERINTOS DE SILENCIO“. Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape, wat
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors, earth colors
Category
2010s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Divino Amor". Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color
By Daphne Anastassiou
Located in MADRID, ES
Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color, oil, canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas, Oil
"Alma Negra". Contemporary, Figurative, expresionism, impresionism, nude
Located in MADRID, ES
"Alma Negra". Contemporary, Realism, figurative, expresionism, impresionism, human figure, nude
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ball Game (Triptych)
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
It is important to note that this work consists of three separate canvases, each one of 70x70x2. They make up a work of 210x70x2.
The scene depicted is purely imaginary, where two wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Lady Lying Down
Located in Madrid, ES
DANIEL HERNÁNDEZ
Peruvian, 1856 - 1932
LADY LYING DOWN
signed "Daniel Hernandez." (lower right)
oil on wood panel
10-5/8 x 14 inches (27 x 36 cm.)
framed: 18-1/2 x 22 inches (47 x 55...
Category
1890s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Galaxia 7". Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color
By Daphne Anastassiou
Located in MADRID, ES
Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color, paper
Category
2010s Abstract Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Relaciones". Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color
By Daphne Anastassiou
Located in MADRID, ES
Abstract, figurative, Street art, bright color, paper
Category
2010s Abstract Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Puerto de Jávea
By Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN SOROLLA Y BASTIDA
Spanish, 1863 - 1923
PUERTO DE JÁVEA
signed and dated "J. Sorolla B. / 1905" (lower right)
oil on canvas on cardboard
7 x 8 inches (18 x 20.5 cm.)
framed: 1...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Faust
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ GARCÍA Y RAMOS
Spanish, 1852 - 1912
FAUST
signed "J. García y Ramos" (lower right)
oil on canvas
21-1/2 x 24-5/8 inches (54.5 x 62.5 cm.)
framed: 24-5/8 x 27-3/4 (62.5 x 70.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, France
José García y Ramos (Seville, 1852-ibídem, 1912) was a Spanish painter and illustrator.
He was a student of the Provincial School of Fine Arts of Seville from a young age, completing his training in the workshop of José Jiménez Aranda...
Category
1880s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
ROND-POINT DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
signed "Grau Sala" (lower left)
signed, located and dated "GRAU SALA / PARIS 1967" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pavillon de Cirque
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
PAVILLON DE CIRQUE
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 inches (38 x 46 cm.)
framed: 21-1/2 x 24-1/2 inches (54 x 62 cm.)
NOTE:
THIS W...
Category
1930s Fauvist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Place de la République, 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Edouard Léon Cortès
By Édouard Leon Cortès
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS
French, 1882 - 1969
PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE
signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right)
oil on canvas
25-3/4 x 36-1/4 inches (65 x 91.5 cm.)
framed: 33-1/2 x 44-1/4 inc...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Edouard Léon Cortès, Oil on Wood Panel, "Notre-Dame View from The Quays, 1936"
By Édouard Leon Cortès
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS
French, 1882 - 1969
NOTRE-DAME VIEW FROM THE QUAYS
signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right); inscribed "6728" au crayon bleu et cachet "...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Far Away Thoughts", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Daniel Hernández
Located in Madrid, ES
DANIEL HERNÁNDEZ
Peruvian, 1856 - 1932
FAR AWAY THOUGHTS
signed "Daniel Hernandez" (lower right)
oil on canvas
27-1/2 x 19-1/4 inches (70 x 49 cm.)
framed: 39-3/8 x 31-1/8 inches (100 x 79 cm.)
Daniel Hernández Morillo...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cardinal's Visit
Located in Madrid, ES
SALVADOR SÁNCHEZ BARBUDO
Spanish, 1857 - 1917
THE CARDINAL'S VISIT
signed, located and dated "Barbudo / ROMA 1902" (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 33-2/3 inches (55.5 x 85.5 cm.)
framed: 36-1/2 x 48-1/4 inches (92.5 x 122.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Munich
LITERATURE
Visita con el cardenal combines the two most salient characteristics of Sánchez-Barbudo's work: the search for novelty of theme and narrative content, and the use of minutely detailed brushwork and luminosity. Sánchez-Barbudo specialised in elaborate 'costume pictures', delighting the viewer with impressive details finely rendered with dazzling technical virtuosity.
Here, Sánchez-Barbudo depicts a well-to-do bourgeois family receiving a cardinal in their home. The interior, sumptuously furnished in the rococo style, along with the rich costumes and fabrics, are beautifully observed. Yet beyond the high technique lavished upon the composition, the treatment is comic and full of character and suffused with a gently satirising anti-clericalism.
The cardinal, far from getting the attention he expects, is, literally, sidelined, his expression and body language showing his pique. There is no doubt that contemporary collectors and spectators took pleasure in the sight of noble self-respecting figureheads of the church being brought back down to earth. The comedy was appealing, and the message suited the prevailing political mood of an increasingly secular middle-class buying public.
Salvador Sánchez Barbudo was born on March 14, 1857 in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz). He was one of the most important Spanish artists of the "casacón" genre, who followed the Fortuny tradition in Rome. During his childhood he was under the protection of the Marquis del Castillo and in 1875 he moved to Seville where he attended the School of Fine Arts, becoming a disciple of José Villegas...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rue de Paris
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
RUE DE PARIS
signed "Grau Sala" (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 19-3/4 inches (61 x 50 cm.)
framed: 29-3/8 x 25-1/4 inches (74.5 x 64 cm.)
PRO...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Partida de Tresillo
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ JIMÉNEZ ARANDA
Spanish, 1837 - 1903
PARTIDA DE TRESILLO
signed, located & dated “Jz. Aranda / Madrid. 1893.” (lower right)
oil on canvas
31-1/2 x 39-1/3 inches (80 x 100 cm)
unframed
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- This picture being mentioned and illustrated in “LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA”, Madrid, September 15, 1895
- B. Pantorba, José Jiménez Aranda, 1973, p. 75, 203
- José Jiménez Aranda, 1837-1903: Centro Cultural El Monte, Seville, October 2005, illustrated p. 102
EXHIBITED
Madrid National Exhibition of 1895
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, USA
José Jiménez Aranda (7 February 1837 – 6 May 1903) was a Spanish painter and brother of the painters Luis Jiménez...
Category
1890s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Under the Parasol", 20th Century Oil on Canvas Attributed to Laureano Barrau
Located in Madrid, ES
ATTRIBUTED TO LAUREANO BARRAU
Spanish, 1863 - 1957
UNDER THE PARASOL
unsigned
oil on canvas
35-1/2 x 26 inches (90 x 66 cm.)
framed: 44-1/4 x 35-1/2 in...
Category
1920s Naturalistic Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carlos Nadal, Pont de Ville
By Carlos Nadal
Located in Madrid, ES
CARLOS NADAL
Spanish, 1917 - 1998
PONT DE VILLE
signed "Nadal" (lower right)
titled, signed and dated "PONT DE VILLE / Nadal / 1981" (on the reverse)
with the atelier stamp (on the r...
Category
1980s Fauvist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Venetian scene", 19th Century oil on canvas laid on cardboard by Antonio Reyna
By Antonio Reyna Manescau
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIO REYNA MANESCAU
Spanish, 1859 - 1937
VENETIAN SCENE
signed & located "A. Reyna, Venezia" (lower right)
oil on canvas laid on cardboard
8 ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Large "View of The Doge's Palace Venice", 19th C. Oil on Canvas by Karl Kaufmann
By Karl Kaufmann
Located in Madrid, ES
KARL KAUFMANN
Austrian, 1843 - 1901
VIEW OF VENICE OF THE DOGE'S PALACE, VENICE
signed & dated "K. Kaufmann 1894" (lower right)
oil on canvas
38-3/4 x 56-1/8 inches (98 x 142 cm.)
fr...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Boulevard of Paris", 20th Century oil on canvas by Spanish artist E. Grau Sala
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
BOULEVARD OF PARIS
signed Grau Sala (lower right)
oil on canvas
25-1/2 X 32 inches (65 X 81 cm.)
framed: 36-1/4 X 42-1/2 inches (92 X 108 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Sale: Sotheby´s Olympia London, 20 October 2006
Emilio Grau Sala came from a family of artists. He was born in Barcelona in 1911 and his father, a good cartoonist, had been one of the promoters of the "Salon des Humanistes" and made his exhibitions normally in the Parés Hall.
His first works were exhibited at the Salon des Independents, in the years 1930-33.
Grau Sala was essentially a Mediterranean painter, son of post-impressionism and enriched with French painting of the last fifty years.
In this work Grau Sala has a loose, subtle brushstroke, in which the color shapes the entire work. The bright and transparent whites that give life to young schoolgirls contrast with the brushstrokes of blacks from the nun who accompanies them. The explosion of greens is refreshing, it surrounds us and transports us to an idyllic place, even if it is a citizen boulevard, which becomes friendly and beautiful.
His works can be found in the Museums of the Villa de Paris, L'Ile de France Museum, at the Château de Sceaux, Honfleur Museum, La Rochelle Museum, Barcelona Museum, Tossa de Mar...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fairgoers in front of roulottes
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
FAIRGOERS IN FRONT OF ROULOTTES
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
oil on canvas
18-1/4 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm.)
framed: 29-1/4 x 26 inches (74 x 66 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private French Collector
Celso Lagar Arroyo (Ciudad Rodrigo, 1891 - Seville, 1966) was an expressionist Spanish painter of the first generation of the School of Paris, where he lived most of his life. He was influenced by avant-gardes of all kinds, such as cubism and fovism. He painted mainly landscapes and still lifes...
Category
1930s Fauvist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Florence Sisters", 19th Century Oil on Canvas, Spanish Artist José Villegas
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ VILLEGAS Y CORDERO
Spanish 1844 - 1921
"The Florence Sisters"
signed "Villegas" (lower left)
oil on canvas
33-1/2 X 40-1/2 inches (84.5 X 102.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Seville, Spain
José Villegas Cordero (Seville, August 26, 1844-Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. He directed the Prado Museum between 1901 and 1918.
Biography
He was the brother of the painter Ricardo Villegas Cordero. He began his apprenticeship very young with José María Romero, with whom he remained for two years until entering the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was under the tutelage of Eduardo Cano.
In 1860, when he was only 16 years old, he sold his work Little Philosophy for 2,000 reais at the Seville Exhibition. In 1867 he traveled to Madrid, where he entered Federico Madrazo's studio. There he established friendship with painters Eduardo Rosales and Fortuny.
He went regularly to the Prado where he copied Velázquez, from whom he acquired spontaneity and the use of color for his technique.
Finally, and out of admiration for Fortuny's orientalist painting, he returned to Seville and organized an excursion to Morocco.
At the end of 1868 he decided to travel to Rome accompanied by the painters Rafael Peralta and Luis Jiménez Aranda...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Como el puente de Avignon". Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Category
2010s Pop Art Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
The work Fishing is an intimate evocation of the tranquility and calmness offered by the sea. It captures a moment of peace and contemplation in which a fisherman, abstracted from h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Interieur aux Fleurs Jaunes" 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Emilio Grau Sala
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
INTERIEUR AUX FLEURS JAUNES
signed "Grau Sala" (lower left)
signed again, located, dated and titled "Grau Sala, Paris 61, Interieur aux fleurs jaunes" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
15 x 18-1/4 inches (38 x 46 cm.)
framed: 23-1/2 x 26-1/2 (59.5 x 67 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Parisian Collection
Interieur aux fleurs jaunes
This interior with two female figures where also the plans made in different colors are drawing the composition.
The abundant pictorial material distributed in geometric portions, gives life to the tablecloth and mother and daughter figures, in black and white colors of the jacket, while the black line takes care of the environments so as not to separate them.
The fruit bowl and flowers give a cheerful touch with their pastel tones.
Emilio Grau Sala came from a family of artists. He was born in Barcelona in 1911 and his father, a good cartoonist, had been one of the promoters of the "Salon des Humanistes" and made his exhibitions normally in "Sala Parés", Barcelona.
His first works were exhibited at the Salon des Independents. In the years 1930-33 he had painted under the influence of Cubism, especially that of Torres García. It is from that time a painting of the port of Barcelona, geometric and structural, which completely anticipated what would later be his work. His personality began fully painting watercolors and oils with a certain fantasy character, with a point of decorative instinct and themes full of naivety and grace. Romantic interiors, paddocks, port scenes, sailors, etc.
Grau Sala was essentially a Mediterranean painter, son of post-impressionism and enriched with French painting of the last fifty years. Mediterranean because his work has the color and light of that land.
He understood and assimilated impressionist painting very well, and for that reason he was never subject to the modules of a formulist realism, nor the sexigencias of the forms.
In Paris he found the best environment to give us a fruitful and intense work, because he could use the expressive potential of French art to enrich it.
All this made him a very esteemed artist everywhere where his work was known. He was also very often required to illustrate books and publications in Paris. Also his posters were very successful.
He painted a large number of subjects, but perhaps the theme of horse racing is where you can see in a very clear way the joyful and optimistic life that was lived at that time. In this fabric there is an explosion of juicy and vivid colors full of ingenuity and simplicity in its composition. Only a teacher could turn the complicated into something simple and beautiful. Before this work we feel a deep emotion, the emotion of before starting a horse race. Joy and nervousness at the same time. Especially since it is a direct emotion. There are no intermediaries between our eyes and what the work intends to tell us. This is precisely what seduces and catches us of this painting.
His works can be found in the Museums of the Villa de Paris, L'Ile de France Museum, at the Château de Sceaux, Honfleur Museum, La Rochelle Museum, Barcelona Museum...
Category
1960s Fauvist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“An Orientalist Scene with Musicians and Dancer”, 19th C. Oil/Canvas by M. Rabes
By Max Rabes
Located in Madrid, ES
MAX RABES
German, 1868 - 1944
AN ORIENTALIST SCENE WITH MUSICIANS AND DANCER
signed "Max Rabes" (lower right)
oil on canvas
65 x 77-1/2 inches (164.5 x 197 cm.)
framed: 70-2/3 x 8...
Category
1910s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Courses
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
COURSES
signed "Grau Sala" (lower left)
signed, dated and titled "GRAU SALA / 1967 / “Courses”" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
23-5/8 x 29 inche...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"At the Annual Fair", an early 20th Century oil on canvas by Alberto Plá Rubio
Located in Madrid, ES
ALBERTO PLA Y RUBIO
Spanish, 1867 - 1937
AT THE ANNUAL FAIR
signed & dated "Pla Rubio, 909" (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 X 25-5/8 inches (35.5 X 65 cm.)
...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Casas Colgadas
Located in MADRID, ES
Impresionist cityscape from Cuenca, Spain
Category
2010s Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Brazo de la Torre". Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscape
Located in MADRID, ES
Diptych 2 x (100x100 cm)
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors
Category
2010s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Mère et fillette au bouquet de fleurs
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
MÈRE ET FILLETTE AU BOUQUET DE FLEURS
signed "Grau Sala" (lower left)
signed, located and dated “GRAU SALA / PARIS 1963” (on the reverse)
oil on...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"All you need". Figurative, Human figure, Realism, oil on canvas, feminist
Located in MADRID, ES
Hand signed by artist
"All you need". Figurative, Human figure, Realism, oil on canvas, feminist
Category
2010s Modern Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Ballet Lessons", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Sebastián Llobet Ribas, Spanish
Located in Madrid, ES
SEBASTIÁN LLOBET RIBAS
Spanish, 1887 - 1975
signed "Llobet Ribas" (lower right)
signed again "Llobet Ribas" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
32 x 25-3/4 inches (80.5 x 65 cm.)
unframed
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Barcelona
Painter and draftsman of the twentieth century, born in Barcelona in 1887. He attended the Fine Arts Schools and was a disciple of Vicente Climent. He participated in the Self-Portraits Exhibition held in 1907, in the Drawing Exhibition in the Sala Parés in 1910, in several of the Spring and International Exhibition, and in the National Exhibition of 1942 and 1944 in Barcelona and in 1950 in Madrid. In the 1951 Exhibition of the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Palma de Mallorca, he obtained a medal for the set of drawings...
Category
1930s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Valencian Flower Pickers ", Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by José Mongrell
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ MONGRELL
Spanish, 1870 - 1937
VALENCIAN FLOWER PICKERS
signed “J. Mongrell” lower left
oil on canvas
29-1/4 x 45 inches (74 x 114 cm.)
framed: 42-3/...
Category
1910s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Catalonia Landscape", Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Modest Urgell
Located in Madrid, ES
MODEST URGELL
Spanish, 1839 - 1919
CATALONIA LANDSCAPE
signed “Urgell” (lower left)
oil on canvas
27-1/4 x 51-1/4 in. (69 x 130 cm.)
framed: 31-1/4 x 55-...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Un poco de paz (beach mode)". Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Category
2010s Pop Art Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mujer con coleta". Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait
Located in MADRID, ES
Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait , neo cubist
Category
2010s Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Ellas". Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait
Located in MADRID, ES
Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait , neo cubist
Category
2010s Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Ca' d' Oro, Venice" Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas of Venice, by Antonio Reyna
By Antonio Reyna Manescau
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIO REYNA MANESCAU
Spanish, 1859 - 1937
CA' D' ORO, VENICE
signed & located "A. Reyna, Venezia" (lower right)
oil on canvas
11-1/2 x 19-3/4 ...
Category
1890s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Plage de Trouville" Sept. 1953, 20th Century oil on canvas by Emilio Grau Sala
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
TROUVILLE, SEPTEMBRE 1953
signed Grau Sala (lower left)
signed again, located & dated "Grau Sala, Trouville, Septembre 1953" on the reverse
oil...
Category
1950s Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Toute la ville en parle
By Eduardo Arroyo
Located in Madrid, ES
EDUARDO ARROYO
Spanish, 1937 - 2018
TOUTE LA VILLE EN PARLE
signed "ARROYO 82" (lower centre)
signed, dated and titled "ARROYO / 1982 / TOUTE LA VILLE EN PARLE" (on the reverse)
oil ...
Category
1980s Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Francisco Bores, Journée claire
By Francisco Bores
Located in Madrid, ES
FRANCISCO BORES
Spanish, 1898 - 1972
JOURNÉE CLAIRE
signed and dated "Borès 34" (lower left)
oil on canvas
18 x 15 inches (46 x 38 cm.)
framed: 26 x 23 inches (66 x 58 cm.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Francisco Bores, Reasoned Catalogue, Volume I - Painting 1917-1944, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2003, nº 1934 / 15, reproduced in p. 231
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Madrid
Francisco Bores López (Madrid, May 5, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was a Spanish painter of the so-called New School of Paris.
His artistic training originated both in the Cecilio Pla painting academy, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz or Joaquín Peinado, and in the literary gatherings in Madrid related to ultraism.
At this time he made engravings and woodcuts for a large number of magazines such as Horizonte, Cruz y Raya, Index, Revista de Occidente. In 1922 he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts.
In 1925 he participated in the first exhibition of the Iberian Artists Society. The limited success of this exhibition pushes him to go to Paris. In this city he shared a studio with the Spanish painter Pancho Cossío and also met Picasso and Juan Gris.
In 1927 he held his first solo exhibition in Paris. From this moment on, Bores integrates himself into the Parisian artistic environment where he will live practically his entire life. In 1928, his first exhibition in a gallery in the United States, in 1930 he exhibited again, within a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In the following years, he continued exhibiting in different galleries in Paris, such as the Georges Petit Gallery, the Bernheim Gallery and the Vavin Raspail Gallery. He also participates in several group exhibitions, highlighting the Exhibition of Contemporary Spanish Art...
Category
1930s Cubist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large "View of Venice", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Karl Kaufmann
By Karl Kaufmann
Located in Madrid, ES
KARL KAUFMANN
Austrian, 1843 - 1901
VIEW OF VENICE
signed & dated "K. Kaufmann 1894" (lower right)
oil on canvas
38-3/4 x 56-1/8 inches (98 x 142 cm.)
framed: 41-1/2 x 59-1/4 inches ...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Jardin Familial", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist Emilio Grau Sala
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
JARDIN FAMILIAL
signed "Grau Sala" (lower right)
signed again, dated & titled "Grau Sala / 1974 / Jardin Familial" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
18-1/8 x 21-3/4 inches (46 x 55 cm.)
framed: 25 x 28-1/2 inches (63.5 x 72.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Barcelona, Spain
Emilio Grau Sala came from a family of artists. He was born in Barcelona in 1911 and his father, a good cartoonist, had been one of the promoters of the "Salon des Humanistes" and made his exhibitions normally in "Sala Parés", Barcelona.
His first works were exhibited at the Salon des Independents. In the years 1930-33 he had painted under the influence of Cubism, especially that of Torres García. It is from that time a painting of the port of Barcelona, geometric and structural, which completely anticipated what would later be his work. His personality began fully painting watercolors and oils with a certain fantasy character, with a point of decorative instinct and themes full of naivety and grace. Romantic interiors, paddocks, port scenes, sailors, etc.
Grau Sala was essentially a Mediterranean painter, son of post-impressionism and enriched with French painting of the last fifty years. Mediterranean because his work has the color and light of that land.
He understood and assimilated impressionist painting very well, and for that reason he was never subject to the modules of a formulist realism, nor the sexigencias of the forms.
In Paris he found the best environment to give us a fruitful and intense work, because he could use the expressive potential of French art to enrich it.
All this made him a very esteemed artist everywhere where his work was known. He was also very often required to illustrate books and publications in Paris. Also his posters were very successful.
He painted a large number of subjects, but perhaps the theme of horse racing is where you can see in a very clear way the joyful and optimistic life that was lived at that time. In this fabric there is an explosion of juicy and vivid colors full of ingenuity and simplicity in its composition. Only a teacher could turn the complicated into something simple and beautiful. Before this work we feel a deep emotion, the emotion of before starting a horse race. Joy and nervousness at the same time. Especially since it is a direct emotion. There are no intermediaries between our eyes and what the work intends to tell us. This is precisely what seduces and catches us of this painting.
His works can be found in the Museums of the Villa de Paris, L'Ile de France Museum, at the Château de Sceaux, Honfleur Museum, La Rochelle Museum, Barcelona Museum...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fidelidad". Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait
Located in MADRID, ES
Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait , neo cubist
Category
2010s Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Party (Paper)". Figurative, Realism, Drawing, Collage, paper, pencil
Located in MADRID, ES
Hand signed by artist
Figurative, Human figure, Realism, Drawing, Collage, paper, pencil
Category
2010s Modern Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
"A peony", Realism, figurative, flowers, pastel colors
Located in MADRID, ES
Realism, figurative, flowers, pastel colors
Category
2010s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Forains sur la plage
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
FORAINS SUR LA PLAGE
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
signed, located, dated and titled “Lagar Pennedepie sur Honfleur / 1951 / Forains dans la Grove” (o...
Category
1950s Fauvist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nature Morte" Fruit Bowl, Tea Pot and Cup, Oil on Canvas by Spanish Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
NATURE MORTE
signed "Lagar" lower left
oil on canvas
18-1/4 X 21-3/4 inches (46 X 55 cm.)
framed: 23-3/8 X 27-1/8 (59 X 68.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Privat...
Category
1910s Expressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Breeze". Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait
Located in MADRID, ES
Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait , neo cubist
Category
2010s Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Un poco de paz II". Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Category
2010s Pop Art Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Jeune femme aux fleurs" 20th Century oil on canvas by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Madrid, ES
JEAN GABRIEL DOMERGUE
French, 1889 – 1962
"JEUNE FEMME AUX FLEURS"
Signed & dated "Jean-Gabriel Domergue ´28 " (lower right)
With the Atelier stamp on the stretcher and canvas on the reverse
Oil on canvas
32 X 25-3/4 inches (81 x 65 cm.)
framed: 39-1/2 X 33-1/4 inches (100 X 84 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Madrid
Note:
We are grateful to Mr. Noé Willer for confirming the authenticity of this work which is recorded in the archives of the Artist.
Painter born in Bordeaux, in 1889 and died in Paris in 1962.
He began painting his mother's portraits very soon.
He studied at the National Superior School of Fine Arts. The artist considered his teacher and inspiring Degas.
Between 1904 and 1907 he joined Fauvism. In 1905 he participated in the "Autumn Hall" and in the "Hall of Independents". In 1907 he presented his 1st individual exhibition at the Vollard Gallery. He specialized in female portraits of Parisian ladies, creating a unique, sophisticated and elegant female portrait prototype that characterized him forever.
He played an essential role in the evolution of women's fashion of his time. He designed numerous dresses, hats and accessories for famous designers such as Paul Poiret and Henry Marque
It goes down in history as the architect of a new type of woman, thin, with an elegant air, always with style, with unusual elongated necks, with impressive slanted eyes, that seem to look at the world in amazement, perhaps because they express a feeling of freedom towards Society and its norms. With these paintings of women, he showed the world the true French, elegant, beautiful and with a gooseneck.
In 1914 he won the Rome Prize.
Many celebrities of the time posed for the artist, Josephine Baker, Brigitte Bardot, etc. But although he painted numerous nude actresses...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Abrazo en un mundo que no entiendo". Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurativ
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, Pop, Surrealistic, Figurative, Nude
Category
2010s Pop Art Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Reflection", 19th Centuty oil oncanvas by Argentinian painter G. Mendilaharzu
Located in Madrid, ES
GRACIANO MENDILAHARZU
Argentinian, 1857 - 1894
"REFLECTION"
signed "Mendilaharzu" (lower left)
oil on canvas
18-1/4 X 15 inches (46 X 38 cm.)
framed: 27-1/4 X 23-3/4 inches (69 X 60...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Moonlit River Scene", Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Luis Graner y Arrufi
By Luis Graner Y Arrufi
Located in Madrid, ES
LUIS GRANER Y ARRUFI
Spanish, 1863 - 1929
MOONLIT RIVER SCENE
signed and dated "L. Graner, 1925" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
20-1/8 X 30 inches (51X 76 cm.)
framed: 25-3/4 X 35-3/4 inches (65 X 90.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
NEAL AUCTION COMPANY, New Orleans, LA, USA
Private Collection, Barcelona
Graner paints this work, Moonlit on the river, during his stay in the United States in the last stage of his artistic life, from 1910 to 1928, in full stage of maturity.
This artwork reflects the constant search of the artist for the effects of light in his work. This persistent concern for light remains throughout his artistic life, which he learned in his Parisian stage under the influence of the painter Frances Platour.
The silver light of the moon and the small lights at distance, which are tiny foci of artificial light, reflecting the river water, forming a chromatic range of greens, ocher and pearly that give a certain mystery to the composition, creating a modern approach to the landscape, by placing the two large trees at the edge of the river in the foreground
Luís Graner y Arrufí, Spanish (1863–1929) was a Catalan painter in the Realistic style.
He was born in Barcelona, and studied at the Escola de la Llotja from 1883, with Antoni Caba (color/composition) and Benet Mercadé (drawing).
During his final year at school, he received a grant to study in Madrid, where he copied and learned from the Old Masters at the Museo del Prado. After that, supported by a fellowship, he moved to Paris and became a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. Later, he returned to Barcelona, but continued to travel to cities throughout Europe, including Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf.
Influenced by Richard Wagner's concept of "Gesamtkunstwerk" (Total Work of Art), he was motivated to create his own total art experience and organized the "Sala Mercè" (Mercy Hall) in Barcelona's Rambla District. The project involved contributors from every artistic discipline, including the new field of cinematography. The room was decorated by Antoni Gaudí. Other participants included Adrià Gual, Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas...
Category
1920s Realist Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Danza". Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait
Located in MADRID, ES
Figurative, minimalist, human figure, portrait , neo cubist
Category
2010s Madrid - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
