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N° 1 Pablo Picasso Documented profile
In the early years of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period is distinguished by a palette, an atmosphere and subjects dominated by melancholy blue, as exemplified by The…
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N° 2 Antoni Tàpies Documented profile
A painter, sculptor, essayist and art theorist working in Catalan, Antoni Tàpies developed a practice in which material plays a role equal to that of the painterly gesture. After his…
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N° 3 Salvador Dalí Documented profile
Born in Catalonia, a regional identity he asserted, Salvador Dalí developed a practice that extended well beyond painting: drawing, sculpture, theatrical set design, fashion, print a…
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N° 4 Joan Miró Documented profile
The works listed under the name Joan Miró span several decades: from Portrait of Joaneta Obrador, dated 1918, to Maquette for “Miró’s Chicago”, dated 1963. Between these two mileston…
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N° 5 Antoni Clavé Documented profile
Two documented works mark distinct reference points in Antoni Clavé’s work: the Art Institute of Chicago lists *The Coach of the Blessed Sacrament* (*La Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement*)…
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N° 6 Eduardo Chillida Documented profile
Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002), born in San Sebastián, studied architecture in Madrid before turning to sculpture. Following a period in Paris, he returned to the Basque Country in 195…
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N° 7 Celso Lagar Arroyo Documented profile
Celso Lagar (1891–1966) first trained in his cabinetmaker father’s workshop, then went to Paris to study sculpture in 1911 before concentrating on painting. His Planism brought toget…
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N° 8 Julio González Documented profile
Julio González conceives of creation as a construction in space, which he treats as a material in its own right. The son of a Barcelona-based artistic ironworker and goldsmith, he wo…
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N° 9 Carlos Nadal Documented profile
The Spanish painter Carlos Nadal (1917–1998) developed a pictorial language informed by Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. Vivid colour is a recurring feature of his work, with landscap…
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N° 10 Elmyr de Hory Documented profile
Elmyr de Hory’s career is marked by a practice of copying that, after the war in Paris, became an activity in forgery: having come to try to make a living as an artist, he discovered…
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N° 11 Francisco Bores Documented profile
Born in Madrid in 1898 and died in Paris in 1972, Francisco Bores was a Spanish painter whose career unfolded between these two cities. In 1916, he entered the academy of Cecilio Pla…
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N° 12 Joan Hernández Pijuan Documented profile
Spanish painter born and deceased in Barcelona, Joan Hernández Pijuan developed a body of work whose early stages are marked by expressionist painting with existential resonance, fol…
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N° 13 Antonio Saura Documented profile
Antonio Saura Atarés (1930–1998), a Spanish artist born in Huesca, developed an autodidactic body of work organised around recurring series: the Ladies, the Crucifixions, the Faces,…
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N° 14 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Documented profile
The work of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo brings together genre scenes and religious painting: episodes from the life of Christ, images of the Virgin and Child and of the Immaculate Conc…
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N° 15 Juan Gris Documented profile
The references from the Art Institute of Chicago mark this period with Table at a Café (1912), Abstraction (Guitar and Glass) (1913), The Checkerboard (1915) and After Cézanne (1916)…
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N° 16 Miquel Barceló Documented profile
Miquel Barceló’s painting gradually expanded into bronze, ceramics and performance. Born in Felanitx, Mallorca, in 1957, he trained in Palma before beginning studies in Barcelona. Hi…
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N° 17 Juan Uslé Documented profile
Born in Santander in 1954, Juan Uslé studied fine art in Valencia from 1973 to 1977 before developing a career shared between Spain and New York. His move to the United States in the…
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N° 18 Francisco Bajen Documented profile
Francisco Bajén (San Clemente, 1912–Albi, 2014) was a Spanish painter whose artistic career developed in France’s Tarn region. A former Republican army officer, he went into exile in…
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N° 19 Jaume Plensa Documented profile
Jaume Plensa, born in Barcelona in 1955, approaches the body, memory and language through sculpture. His installations also engage touch and hearing: in 2011 at Yorkshire Sculpture P…
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N° 20 Jorge Castillo Documented profile
Jorge Castillo, born in Pontevedra in 1933, grew up in Buenos Aires after his family emigrated to Argentina. Largely self-taught, he also worked in technical drawing. Returning to Sp…
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N° 21 Óscar Domínguez Documented profile
Óscar Domínguez’s career encompasses Surrealist painting, illustration and objects presented in exhibitions. His first Surrealist paintings date from 1932; his works also include the…
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N° 22 José María Sicilia Documented profile
José María Sicilia, born in Madrid in 1954, moved to Paris in 1980 after leaving his academic training. His early expressive landscapes gave way to an exploration of everyday objects…
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N° 23 José Vela Zanetti Documented profile
José Vela Zanetti (1913–1999) is identified as a painter. “Casas”, a work in watercolour and ink, signed lower right, measures 59 × 37.5 cm; the lot was estimated at CHF 2,500 and so…
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N° 24 Pedro Moreno Meyerhoff Documented profile
Pedro Moreno Meyerhoff, born in Barcelona in 1954, discovered painting through his father, an amateur painter, and continued as a self-taught artist. His artistic activity developed…
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N° 25 Arturo Souto Documented profile
Arturo Souto was born in Pontevedra in 1902 and died in Mexico City in 1964. The Spanish painter’s career connected Galicia, European capitals and exile in the Americas. He entered t…
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N° 26 José de Zamora Documented profile
José de Zamora, also known as Pepito Zamora, connects drawing, fashion and performance. Trained in Paris with Paul Poiret, he designed costumes for the Casino de Paris and contribute…
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N° 27 Luis Feito Documented profile
Born in Madrid in 1929, Luis Feito López, known as Luis Feito, developed his painting from early figurative elements through a Cubist period and then towards abstraction, particularl…
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N° 28 Ángel Duarte Documented profile
Ángel Duarte (Aldeanueva del Camino, 1930–Sion, 2007) developed a practice linking optical art, kinetic art and geometric construction. He settled in Paris in 1954 and became a found…
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N° 29 Begoña Izquierdo Documented profile
Begoña Izquierdo (1926–1999) was a Spanish painter born in Bilbao and active in Madrid. She entered the San Fernando art school in 1949 and taught technical drawing in Amurrio after…
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N° 30 Ismael González de la Serna Documented profile
Ismael de la Serna, a Spanish painter active notably in Paris, explored relationships between figuration and abstraction. Cubism informed his still lifes: in Bodegón of 1926–1927, he…
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N° 31 Javier Vilató y Ruiz Documented profile
A painter, printmaker and sculptor, Javier Vilató gives printmaking a place as important as painting. Born in Barcelona in 1921 and deceased in Paris in 2000, Xavier Vilató i Ruiz is…
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N° 32 Josep Coll i Bardolet Documented profile
Born in Campdevànol, Josep Coll i Bardolet (1912–2007) studied in Vic, Olot, Tours and Brussels. Settling in Mallorca during the 1940s, he made the island's landscape and traditions…
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N° 33 Luis Jiménez Aranda Documented profile
Luis Jiménez Aranda, born in Seville in 1845, who died in Pontoise in 1928, approached genre painting at different scales. In A Hospital Ward during the Chief Physician’s Round (1889…
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N° 34 Miguel Ortiz Berrocal Documented profile
Miguel Berrocal (1933–2006), a Spanish sculptor also known as Miguel Ortiz, studied mathematics in Madrid and attended Ángel Ferrant’s classes. His torsos, heads and reclining figure…
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N° 35 Modest Cuixart Documented profile
Modest Cuixart’s career is marked by several shifts: from his adoption of Art Informel in Lyon to an expression closer to human reality in the early 1960s, and then to an exploration…
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N° 36 Alonso Cano Documented profile
The Spanish painter, sculptor and architect Alonso Cano trained in Seville with Francisco Pacheco, who also taught Velázquez. He moved to Madrid in 1638 and returned to Granada in 16…
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N° 37 Antonio Reyna Manescau Documented profile
Antonio María Reyna Manescau (1859–1937), born in Coín, trained in Málaga before receiving a scholarship in 1882 to continue his studies in Rome. Settled in Italy, he developed a par…
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N° 38 Juan de Arellano Documented profile
Juan de Arellano developed a practice in Madrid particularly devoted to flower painting. Born in Santorcaz, he trained with Juan de Solís and subsequently ran a workshop and shop nea…
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N° 39 Juan Genovés Documented profile
The Spanish painter and graphic artist Juan Genovés Candel—also known in Catalan as Joan Genovés i Candel—developed a body of work shaped by the repressive context of the Franco dict…
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N° 40 Julia Alcayde Montoya Documented profile
Julia Alcayde Montoya (1855–1939), born in Gijón and based in Madrid, devoted her painting principally to flowers, fruit and still lifes. After initial instruction from her brother,…
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N° 41 Mariano Bertuchi Documented profile
The Spanish painter Mariano Bertuchi came from Granada and developed an essential part of his work through his relationship with Morocco. Light, landscape and life in the northern to…
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N° 42 Pedro Txillida Documented profile
Pedro Txillida, born in San Sebastián in 1952, is a Spanish painter and sculptor. The son of Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce, he studied at Madrid’s Complutense University betwee…
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N° 43 Rafael de Ochoa Madrazo Documented profile
Rafael de Ochoa y Madrazo, also referred to as Rafael de Ochoa Madrazo and Rafael De Ochoa y Madrazo, is associated with two posters listed under the titles “France / Turquie” and “P…
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N° 44 Ulpiano Checa Documented profile
Ulpiano Checa y Sanz, born in Colmenar de Oreja in 1860 and deceased in Dax in 1916, was a Spanish painter also active in sculpture and illustration. Trained in Madrid, he gained a s…
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N° 45 Víctor Mira Documented profile
The Spanish painter Victor Mira (1949–2003) is documented here through works on paper in different techniques. “Hombres Hilatura”, a signed, titled pencil drawing dated 1982, measure…
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N° 46 Alberto Pla y Rubio Documented profile
Alberto Pla Rubió (Villanueva de Castellón, 1867–Barcelona, 1937) was a Spanish painter trained in Valencia and Madrid. His teachers included Alejandro Ferrant and Ignacio Pinazo. Hi…
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N° 47 Angela de la Cruz Documented profile
Born in A Coruña in 1965, Ángela de la Cruz explores the limits of painting and its existence as an object. After studying philosophy and literature in Santiago de Compostela, she co…
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N° 48 Antonio Murado Documented profile
Executed in oil, they each measure 460 × 560 mm. On the reverse, each bears a signature, the date 2001 and the inscription “NYC”. The group is associated with the exhibition Antonio…
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N° 49 Antonio Palomino Documented profile
Antonio Palomino was a Spanish painter and theorist active in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Trained in Córdoba, he entered Madrid’s artistic circles and became…
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N° 50 Antonio Salvador Casanova y Estorach Documented profile
Antonio Casanova y Estorach (1847–1896), born in Tortosa, was a Spanish painter of historical subjects and genre scenes. He trained in Barcelona and then Madrid, where he copied work…
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N° 51 Bartolomé Román Documented profile
The Spanish painter Bartolomé Román worked in Madrid during the first half of the seventeenth century and died there in 1647. His religious work is associated with commissions from c…
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N° 52 Dionís Bennàssar Mulet Documented profile
Dionís Bennássar’s (1904–1967) career remained closely tied to Mallorca. He studied art in Palma while working as an electrician, then continued painting in Pollença. An injury to hi…
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N° 53 Eduardo Arranz-Bravo Documented profile
Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, also known by the first name Eduard, was born in Barcelona in 1941 and died in 2023. A painter, sculptor and printmaker, he trained at Barcelona’s fine arts sch…
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N° 54 Eduardo Cano Documented profile
Eduardo Cano, also known as Eduardo Cano de la Peña, was born in Madrid in 1823 and died in Seville in 1897. Following training in Madrid and Paris, his career developed mainly withi…
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N° 55 Emilio Sánchez-Perrier Documented profile
Emilio Sánchez Perrier’s career spans from the landscapes of Andalusia shown at the Paris Salon to the banks of the Oise that he painted in Pontoise: two places that appear in his wo…
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N° 56 Enrique Brinkmann Documented profile
Enrique Brinkmann was born in Málaga in 1938. A self-taught artist, he participated in the Grupo Picasso before spending time in Germany and Italy. Drawing, painting and printmaking…
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N° 57 Enrique Mélida Documented profile
Enrique Mélida y Alinari was a nineteenth-century Spanish painter whose activity combined artistic production with critical writing. Portraiture occupied an important place in his ca…
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N° 58 Fermín Aguayo Documented profile
Spanish painter Fermín Aguayo was born in 1926 in Sotillo de la Ribera, in the province of Burgos, and died in 1977. He approached painting as a self-taught artist before beginning h…
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N° 59 Francisco Gimeno Arasa Documented profile
Francisco Gimeno, generally called Francesc Gimeno in Catalan collections, was born in Tortosa in 1858 and died in Barcelona in 1927. His early landscapes reflect the influence of Ca…
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N° 60 Frederic Amat Documented profile
Frederic Amat, born in Barcelona in 1952, approaches painting as a practice open to objects, architecture and the performing arts. Trained in architecture and in stage design under F…
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N° 61 Gerardo Rueda Documented profile
Gerardo Rueda moved from figuration towards abstraction while developing a practice of relief and assemblage. With Fernando Zóbel and Gustavo Torner, he helped establish the Museum o…
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N° 62 Guillermo Pérez Villalta Documented profile
Guillermo Pérez Villalta connects his architectural studies with painting attentive to mythology, geometry and perspective. He participated in the new Madrid figuration. In Domus Aur…
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N° 63 Jesús Mari Lazkano Documented profile
Born in Bergara in 1960, Jesús Mari Lazkano studied fine arts at the University of the Basque Country, where he also developed teaching and research activities. His doctoral thesis,…
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N° 64 Joan Abelló Documented profile
Joan Abelló i Prat was a Catalan painter from Mollet del Vallès. He trained with Pere Pruna and Carles Pellicer and also engaged with the work of Joaquim Mir. His apprenticeship incl…
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N° 65 Joan-Josep Tharrats Documented profile
Joan-Josep Tharrats was a Catalan artist born in Girona in 1918 who died in Barcelona in 2001. His painting was accompanied by a sustained involvement in publishing. In 1948 he helpe…
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N° 66 José Benlliure y Gil Documented profile
José Benlliure y Gil, also known in Catalan as Josep Benlliure i Gil, was a Spanish painter born in Valencia in 1855 and died in that city in 1937. Born into a family of artists, he…
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N° 67 José Camarón y Bonanat Documented profile
José Camarón Boronat, also named José Camarón Bonanat by some biographers, was a Spanish painter and printmaker born in Segorbe in 1731. His practice encompassed painting, miniature…
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N° 68 Josep Maria Mallol Suazo Documented profile
The Catalan painter Josep Maria Mallol Suazo (1910–1986), also listed under his full name, Josep Maria Benet Agustí Ignasi Mallol Suazo, had a career marked by exhibitions and awards…
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N° 69 Lucas Velázquez Documented profile
Eugenio Lucas Velázquez was a Madrid painter whose training included the San Fernando Academy and the study of Velázquez and Goya at the Prado. He exhibited from 1841 and received th…
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N° 70 Lucio Muñoz Documented profile
The Spanish painter Lucio Muñoz Martínez (1929–1998), born and deceased in Madrid, worked with burnt paper, wood and canvas. Perforations, tears, folds and incisions were among the w…
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N° 71 Luis Ricardo Falero Documented profile
Luis Ricardo Falero (1851–1896) was a Spanish painter born in Granada who died in London. His career developed between France and England. After serving in the Spanish navy, he chose…
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N° 72 Manuel Torres Martínez Documented profile
Manuel Torres (1938–2018) left Spain in 1960 after studying at the vocational school in Málaga. A metalworker building prototypes at the Ateliers des Charmilles in Geneva, he taught…
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N° 73 Pedro Flores García Documented profile
Pedro Flores García is distinguished by a body of painting that the source describes as avant-garde, structured by a geometry of forms and planes, thick outlines and intense colours.…
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N° 74 Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio Documented profile
Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio helped found the painting academy in Seville alongside Murillo in 1660. Joining the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem the following year accompanied a car…
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