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A Moroni portrait at Setdart
It will go under the hammer with an estimate of €130,000 to €140,000 at the September 10 event.
Murillo to open the auction season in Barcelona
A composition by the Sevillian master is the highlight of the sale Setdart is preparing for September 10.
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An unpublished Dalí sketch linked to his hidden work in Barcelona, unseen by the public since 1969, goes up for auction
A preparatory drawing by Salvador Dalí, linked to his only work in a public building in Barcelona, will be auctioned in September with a starting price of €100,000.
A post-Cubist Picasso drawing up for auction at Setdart
Verre et pipe (1918) is estimated at half a million euros and will be the star lot of the June 19 sale at the auction house, which will also feature a ceramic work by the Malaga-born artist valued at €40,000.
The man who looked at bulls with humor
Setdart offers part of the artistic legacy of illustrator Fernando Vinyes, a portraitist of bullfighting.
Art auctions raise millions even in times of turmoil
This is the case of Setdart, whose CEO and co-founder, Marina Pelegrí, explains: “Since its beginnings in 2004, Setdart has been a 100% online auction house, a pioneer in Spain in adopting this business model. In a traditionally conservative sector, this commitment to digitalization represented a true revolution. At first, it was a challenge to introduce this concept in a market accustomed to in-person auctions and printed catalogues.”
Exhibition showcases Catalan painting with works by Casas, Rusiñol and Mir ahead of their auction
The Setdart exhibition hall in Barcelona inaugurates a show that reflects the artistic evolution of bourgeois Catalonia through key Modernist works. The exhibition will remain open until the eagerly awaited March auction.
Setdart offers a Van der Hamen still life for €100,000
Today, the auction house is holding a sale dedicated to Old Master art, featuring a still life by the Madrid painter, a saint by Murillo, Courtesan with a Client by Pedro Núñez de Villavicencio, and a Virgin of Guadalupe by Miguel Cabrera.
The legacy of Catalan modernism seeks a buyer
Part of Alexandre de Riquer’s archive is for sale at Setdart.
The art market prepares for the largest auction of Rafael Zabaleta works in history
Next Wednesday the 29th, at Setdart’s Madrid saleroom, 10 oils will be auctioned.
The most notable results of the national market in 2024
Neither Sorolla nor Zóbel; last year’s star was a Patek Philippe watch that soared from its €30,000 starting price to one million euros. A true frenzy, rivaled only by the record in numismatics achieved by one of the most coveted gold coins in the field: a 1715 Mexican Galeano, hammered at €630,000. In painting, and in third place in the ranking, was Keith Haring. The graffiti artist topped the national auction charts last year, after twelve months filled with Spanish, Filipino, and colonial highlights. Here we review the most remarkable results of our national market in 2024.
What is art? Interview with Claudia Fuglsang-Madsen
Claudia Fuglsang-Madsen is an architect and International Acquisitions Manager at Setdart, the digital auction house.She shares her views on art and the different ways it manifests itself in life.
Ribera, great winner in the sale of the Granados Collection
Strong results across the two days devoted to Miguel Granados’s collection at Setdart, where his Saint Sebastian was awarded at €75,000, as expected, while the two saints attributed to him or his circle – Saint Jerome and Saint Onuphrius – were so coveted that their starting prices quadrupled.
The treasures of the Granados collection at auction at Setdart
On October 1 and 2, the house will offer a selection of pieces that once belonged to Miguel Granados, a collector who over decades assembled thousands of works in the Palace of the Marquises of Villafranca. Nearly 250 of these pieces now come to auction, with major names such as Ribera, Juan de Borgoña and Antonio del Castillo.
€671,000 for a portrait attributed to Van Dyck and workshop at Setdart
Yesterday, Setdart Auction House awarded Portrait of Don Francisco de Moncada, third Marquis of Aytona and Count of Ossuna, attributed to Anton Van Dyck and workshop, for €535,000 (€671,000 including fees).
Zurbarán and Murillo at Setdart
Setdart’s upcoming auction comes packed with top-tier names such as Zurbarán and Murillo. The estimates of just the ten highest-valued lots amount to nearly two million euros. An excellent selection to bring us closer to the end of what has been an outstanding year for the house.
Historic bottles from Palacio de Arganza in the largest wine auction
Setdart, one of the most renowned internet portals in art and collector's auctions, has scheduled for February 12 one dedicated exclusively to Spanish wines, in which up to eight historic bottles from the Palacio de Arganza winery in Bierzo are present.
The Master of Astorga returns to the auctions
was practically disappeared from the auctions. Now the Catalan house Setdart has for sale a panel by the Master of Astorga for an estimated value of 24,000 euros.
Valencia Fine Arts Museum buys a panel by Vicente Macip and a ‘Ecce Homo’ by Guido Reni at Setdart
The Bellas Artes de Valencia buys a panel by Vicente Macip and an 'Ecce Homo' by Guido Reni in Setdart. The museum has acquired Macip's The Adoration of the Child for €49,000 and Guido Reni's Ecce Homo for €54,000 (including taxes). The Magdalena in Ecstasy by Wybrand de Geest has also found a buyer for 113,000 euros, for which there was a lot of interest among international bidders.
Setdart raises €400,000 with the sale of a single collection
Setdart raises 400,000 euros with the sale of a single collection. The more than 500 lots tripled the estimate calculated by Setdart for this set.
Haring triumphs at Setdart with €514,000
Haring triumphs at Setdart with 514,000 euros. Dance is one of the typical scenes of the American artist and yesterday it rose as the most expensive work in the contemporary collection offered by the house under the title ‘Visionaries of the 20th and 21st Centuries‘.
A Picasso copy of the portrait Goya made of Palafox up for auction
Setdart gallery, with physical headquarters in Madrid and Barcelona, is currently offering in its online auction a pictorial rarity, the copy that a teenage Picasso made of one of Francisco de Goya's best-known paintings, the portrait of 'General Palafox on horseback'.
Setdart offers a Dalí sculpture valued at €1.4 million
Setdart presents a sculpture by Dalí valued at 1.4 million euros. The auction house is holding two particularly important sales next week, on Wednesday 10 one dedicated to old masters and on Thursday 11 another that brings together avant-garde and contemporary pieces. The star of the latter is Dalí's Woman Aflame, a figure of more than three and a half meters valued between 1.2 and 1.4 million euros.
A collection worth over €7 million at auction
Setdart is holding an unprecedented contemporary art auction in the Spanish market, which includes more than 100 works by emblematic figures of contemporary art such as Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Keith Haring, Christo and Jean Dubuffet, among others.
The €7 million collection seeks a new owner
The collection of 7 million euros is looking for an owner. Setdart sells an imposing collection of contemporary art with works by Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Jan Fabre.
Setdart auctions a contemporary collection valued at seven million
Setdart auctions off a contemporary collection valued at seven million. This is an unprecedented event in Spanish collecting. Until June 12, Setdart offers on its website more than a hundred pieces by the great names of contemporary art such as Keith Haring, Christo, Andy Warhol or Damien Hirst.
Setdart auctions a contemporary collection valued at seven million
Setdart is holding an unprecedented auction of contemporary art in Spain, with a collection valued at more than 7 million euros. Setdart auction house presents an unprecedented contemporary art auction in the Spanish market, available in Setdart.com until June 12
Setdart: an unprecedented contemporary art auction in Spain, with a collection valued at over €7 million
Once again, Zóbel leads national sales with a painting entitled La ventanita that was sold at 61,000 euros in the ´Deluxe Contemporary Art´ session held yesterday at Setdart. The day closed with other good sales such as an oil painting by Otto Zitko auctioned at 25,000 euros or a lithograph by Francis Bacon at 14,000 euros.
Zóbel triumphs in Setdart’s contemporary session
The Setdart auction house presents the canvas ´Los hocinos´ by Fernando Zóbel, in the centenary year of the birth of the painter and patron who founded the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca.
Fernando Zóbel’s canvas ‘Los hocinos’ up for auction, valued between €140,000 and €160,000
The digital auction house Setdart offers the canvas Los hocinos by Fernando Zóbel, in the year of its centenary, in an auction that will end on June 13 and for which they have already received a bid of 90,000 euros for a work that they value between 140,000 and 160,000 euros.
The scale replica of the Lady of Elche installed in Valencia is up for auction until July 9
Setdart auctions the Lady of Elche by Manolo Valdés. The 1.65-metre piece is the reduced scale of the 18-metre monumental sculpture, which presides over the avenue of the Alencianas courts in the Capital of the Turia
Manolo Valdés “reduces” and auctions the Iberian Lady of Avenida de Les Corts
Setdart auctions the miniature of the iconic Iberian Lady on Avenida de Les Corts in Valencia
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A bluish Lady of Elche for €250,000
Setdart presents a small-scale piece of the iconic sculpture by Manolo Valdés, located at the roundabout of Avenida de las Cortes Valencianas
Rubens sold for two million at Setdart
Setdart's Rubens sold for two million.
The Portrait of Fray Heliodoro Barea becomes the most expensive work sold at a Spanish auction so far this year, during a day in which the State acquired a scene by Pedro de Orrente.
A mythological painting by Wtewael at Setdart valued at one million euros
A mythological painting by Wtewael at Setdart valued at one million euros. Setdart offers an excellent selection of antique paintings in its upcoming sale on October 17, where Venus and Mars surprised by Vulcan by Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael stands out.
Ministry of Culture acquires a painting by Joaquín Sorolla
Culture acquires a painting by Joaquín Sorolla at Setdart.
The Ministry of Culture and Sport has decided to exercise its right of first refusal in the Setdart auction in which 'Head of Saint Anthony' by Joaquín Sorolla was offered.
The Museum of Fine Arts of Badajoz exhibits the restored canvas of the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe from January 11
The Museum of Fine Arts of Badajoz exhibits the restored canvas of the Mexican Virgin of Guadalupe.
The acquisition was made last 2023 at the Setdart auction house for a value of 33,870.70 euros.
The best results of the national market in 2023
Rubens and Van Dyck lead the results of the national market in 2023.
We review the top ten results of the national market that auction houses have achieved throughout the year.
Another Murillo painting sold for over €65,000
Another painting by Murillo just sold for more than 65,000 euros.
The painting has been acquired after being auctioned by the house Setdart and represents a Christ carrying the cross.
Valencia’s Fine Arts Museum acquires three works for €250,000 at Setdart
The Fine Arts Museum of Valencia acquires 3 works for 250,000 euros in Setdart.
The appointments dedicated to ancient art this week in Setdart have resulted in a total collected of 670,000 euros, more than 250,000 euros correspond to three acquisitions of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.
The Ministry of Culture exercises the “right of first refusal” to acquire various artworks, including a Sorolla
The Ministry of Culture makes use of the 'right of first refusal' to acquire several works of art: among them, a Sorolla.
The Ministry of Culture seems to be willing to ensure that some of the most emblematic pieces of art to be auctioned remain in the national sphere.
The Meninas of Madrid go to auction: proceeds to aid earthquake victims in Turkey
For the fifth year in a row, Meninas Madrid Gallery, after ending the outdoor exhibition period on December 15, announces the virtual auction on Setdart.
Zóbel triumphs in Setdart’s contemporary session
The Filipino once again leads the national sales with a painting titled La ventanita (The Little Window), which was sold for 61,000 euros in the 'Deluxe Contemporary Art' session held yesterday at the Barcelona auction house.
Marina Pelegrí: “Even though the system is digital, there’s always excitement when a bid reaches unexpected prices”
The founder of Setdart takes stock of 2022 at the auction house, announces some purchases from the State - such as a bust of Charles II for the National Sculpture Museum.
Julian Schnabel and A.R. Penck: artists censored by the Spanish Olympic Committee in the 1992 Games
“Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the ’92 Barcelona Olympics, the Setdart auction house will auction two unpublished works by Julian Schnabel and A.R Penck made for the project of the world’s largest sporting event.
The works censored by the Barcelona ’92 Games for their erotic content
The promotion of the Olympic event included the commissioning of posters from renowned artists. Julian Schnabel and A. R. Penck did not see their works exhibited, which are now on auction at Setdart Gallery.
Setdart Auction House to offer a Baroque lot featuring works by Goya and Murillo
All these works are part of the catalog of Setdart’s upcoming auction. Focused on Old Master pieces ranging from the 14th century to 1800.
Bierzo wines arrive at the first auction of the year
A lot of six bottles of Señorío de Peñalba, 1991 vintage, is part of the first major wine auction to be held this year in Spain. It is the Internet portal Setdart, based in Barcelona, and the online auction will take place next Tuesday, January 4.
Painter Antonio Camaró included in the collection of online auction house Setdart
The Valencian painter Antonio Camaró has been included in the collection of the online auction house Setdart of Rafa and Jorge Alamar, fourth generation of the first gallery owners, collectors and art dealers in Spain.
Setdart auctions 140 Cordoban artworks, with archaeological pieces and works by Romero de Torres
The auction house Setdart has announced this Thursday that it will auction on December 21, through its website, a set of pieces that encompass 2,000 years of historical and cultural heritage of Cordoba.
€43,500 for three Passion scenes by Antonio del Castillo at Setdart
The auction house attracted a good number of bidders. The two authors best represented in the sale, Antonio del Castillo and Julio Romero de Torres, were also the ones who attracted the best results.
Julio Romero de Torres remains fashionable in the art world with another record in a private auction
The Setdart auction house is auctioning on December 21, through its website (www.setdart.com), a set of pieces that encompass 2,000 years of historical and cultural heritage of Cordoba.
The City Council finalizes the purchase of a Julio Romero de Torres painting for the museum for over €47,000
The City Council finalizes the purchase of a painting by Julio Romero de Torres for the museum for more than 47,000 euros. The acquisition is made through Setdart, which has the rights to this work.
More than 140 Cordoban artworks up for auction at Setdart
The auction house Setdart has announced this Thursday that it will auction on December 21, through its website, a set of pieces that encompass 2,000 years of historical and cultural heritage of Cordoba.
Homage to Córdoba at Setdart
The auction house is holding a bidding with a total of 143 lots related to the Andalusian city. Julio Romero de Torres and Antonio del Castillo are the ambassadors of the day.
#Córdoba to host a digital auction of artworks exclusively from our city
Setdart wanted to pay tribute to one of the cities that define our land, Cordoba. With this auction Setdart, through its website, will support current artistic references, whether in music or fashion.
Setdart auctions 140 works of art from Córdoba, with archaeological pieces and works by Romero de Torres
The Setdart auction house is auctioning on December 21, through its website(www.setdart.com), a set of pieces that encompass 2,000 years of historical and cultural heritage of Cordoba.
A Roman column, a Romero de Torres, or an Almohad beam: Córdoba’s art and heritage at auction
The Setdart auction house is going to put on the market a total of 137 pieces of Roman and Caliphate archaeology. They are part of the great auction.
Cordoba, 2000 years of art which will be held on December 21.
Auction brings Córdoba archaeology and works by Valdés Leal and Romero de Torres to the block
The thematic and temporal range of the auction that the Setdart room dedicates to Cordoba is very wide, but all the pieces have in common their relationship with the city.
Setdart inaugurates new space in Madrid
Setdart will auction 140 lots of archaeological works and pieces from Cordoba from private collections in Barcelona on December 21.
Works by Romero de Torres, Valdés Leal, Antonio del Castillo and Caliphal archaeological pieces up for auction
The Setdart auction house is auctioning on December 21, through its website, www.setdart.com, a set of pieces that encompass 2,000 years of historical and cultural heritage of Cordoba.
Setdart auctions 140 works of art from Córdoba
The Setdart auction house is auctioning on December 21, through its website, www.setdart.com, a set of pieces that encompass 2,000 years of historical and cultural heritage of Cordoba.
Benjamín Palencia: a renewer of Spanish painting
Setdart dedicates for the first time a monographic auction to the artist Benjamín Palencia. Through a selection of more than thirty works, reflecting the different stages of the artist’s life, an auction will take place on December 14.
Auction of a portrait of a young girl painted by Sorolla
The Setdart auction house brings to the market Niña (1882), a portrait made after his trip to Madrid. The canvas will be auctioned on December 14 with an estimated value between 18,000 and 20,000 euros.
A major collection of French wine goes up for auction at Setdart
Setdart has an auction underway for June 14 of what they describe as “the best collection of French wine to come up for auction in Spain in many years.” There are prestigious brands such as Romanée Conti, Petrus and Chateau Lafite.
Auction of a ‘brother’ of Vallejo’s Christ from the Cathedral
The Barcelona firm Setdart auctions online a ‘Christ Majesty’ of Leonese origin, which has been compared to that of Vallejo and whose estimated value is 35,000 euros, as it suffers evident deterioration.
Gone with the Wind reaches Barcelona through Vivien Leigh
Leigh had long called the Barcelona native “my Spanish friend”. Bonet has collected some fifty objects that, together with the letters, will be sold online at the Setdart auction room on May 26th.
The portrait that earned Sorolla fame in Argentina sells in Valencia
The portrait with which Sorolla achieved fame in Argentina is sold in Valencia. “Madrileña con mantón”, valued at about 100,000 euros, was part of the first exhibition of the Valencian artist in Buenos Aires.
This 1950s Spanish resort—beloved by Audrey Hepburn—is still going strong
Marbella Club lovers will have the opportunity to bid for furniture and decorative objects from two of the hotel’s most emblematic spaces -Villa del Mar and the Champagne Room- on April 21 and 22 at Setdart.
Charity auction at Setdart Auction House
The auction house SETDART will be in charge of managing this online auction, whose proceeds will go mostly to the Food Bank of Madrid, although there will be four meninas that will be destined to other social entities.
Online auction of paintings in aid of AECC Baleares
The charity art auction for the fight against cancer will take place until February 1 and the proceeds from the sale will go entirely to the Spanish Association Against Cancer. Organized by the Rotary Club Palma Ramon Llull and developed through the SETDART platform.
Setdart holds the first monographic auction of Valencian artist “Anzo”
Setdart will contribute to the dissemination and revaluation of the work of the Valencian artist Jose Iranzo Almonazid “Anzo” which will be presented on the 26th through its website www.setdart.com.
€9,000 for a letter from Picasso before his first solo exhibition in Paris
9,000 euros for a letter from Picasso before his first solo exhibition in Paris. The missive, sold by Setdart, is addressed to Miguel Utrillo and comes from the legacy of his friend Manuel Pallarés.
Javier Mariscal auctions his work for the first time at Setdart
Today, December 23, Setdart bids in an unprecedented monographic auction, a set of oils, watercolors and inks that show that, at 70 years old, Javier Mariscal continues to draw with the same naive, irreverent and optimistic spirit as always.
Setdart auctions the largest collection of Cuban art ever assembled in a national auction
The Setdart auction house presents through its website www.sedart.com one of the most representative Spanish collections of Cuban artistic production developed in recent decades. The more than thirty works to be auctioned materialize the richness and renovating spirit of Cuban artists.
A more “selective” Setdart this month
In the catalog of Setdart, the online auction house with a large representation of the artistic wealth of internationally renowned figures such as Joaquín Torres García and Victor Vasarely, and nationally, such as José Benlliure, plans special sales this month, such as Select Works, today’s auction.
Torres García, Raimundo Madrazo and Joaquín Sorolla come together at Setdart Auctions
Torres García, Raimundo Madrazo or Joaquín Sorolla meet at Setdart Auctions. Next October 14, the Setdart auction house will put out to tender an outstanding set of works registered in different artistic periods ranging from the late Gothic to the artistic Avant-gardes.
Two striking works by Victor Vasarely and Karel Appel headline Setdart’s upcoming art auction
On October 6, Setdart auctions will put out to tender a careful selection of contemporary art in which figures of national and international renown such as Victor Vasarely, Karel Apple, Torres Garcia, Juan Genoves and Antoni Tàpies stand out.
An Álvarez de Sotomayor for €25,000 at Setdart
Setdart For this month of February, it is releasing a series of notable lots in which there is an abundance of paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which will be progressively auctioned on the page over the next few weeks as usual.
Zuloaga, to the highest bidder
Setdart, with headquarters in Barcelona and offices in Madrid and Valencia, is the leading online art auction house in Spain, with more than 50,000 users. It is not surprising that this was the platform chosen to sell the treasure, of almost a thousand pieces. «It is something unique, a treasure, it is, in itself, an entire museum».
An unpublished young Sorolla painted after his training period in Rome
It was during his time as a pensioner in the Eternal City that he made the painting that will be auctioned on September 23 at Setdart.com, The boy with the grenade , dated 1885, to which its experts attribute an estimate of 400,000 to 500,000 euros. This painting is an example of the seminal period of the artist’s production.
Setdart Auctions succeeds in selling one of the few works by Carles Casagemas
Setdart Subastas manages to put out to tender one of the few works by Carles Casagemas. One of the few works made by Carles Casagemas in his short career will be auctioned at Setdart. Given the very few tenders that the artist has carried out, this pastel drawing that can be purchased through the website Setdart.com represents a small treasure for art and collecting lovers.
Sorolla’s darkest side at auction for €100,000 at Setdart
Normality returns to the world of art and the dates for upcoming events follow one another on the websites of auction houses. Added to the sales postponed due to sanitary circumstances are the new schedules. Thus, one of the next auctions will be Setdart’s graphic work and photography on June 8.
Chillida, Tàpies and their lithographs meet at Setdart’s auction
The next May 27 Setdart auction 30 lots from a private collection. This auction brings together some of the most sought-after names in the art market, such as Sorolla or Romero de Torres. Online bids have been going on since the last days of April, so potential buyers have about a month to purchase any of the lots.
Setdart Auctions succeeds in selling one of the few works by Carles Casagemas
The private collection of filmmaker Ventura Pons up for auction on Setdart.com on July 13. The artistic sensitivity of the acclaimed Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons is not only reflected in his filmography but is also latent in his role as an art collector.
Sorollas for almost every budget
You can buy the two works in this auction house and three more pieces in Setdart: a portrait of a gentleman in uniform, a drawing and the work ‘ Doing work in front of the sea ‘.
Meninas Madrid Gallery raises nearly €150,000 in charity auctions
The next May 27 Setdart auction 30 lots from a private collection. This auction brings together some of the most sought-after names in the art market, such as Sorolla or Romero de Torres. Online bids have been going on since the last days of April, so potential buyers have about a month to purchase any of the lots.
Setdart auctions Jordi Tard’s collection of more than 15,000 vinyl records
As of April 17, Setdart begins through its web portal www.setdart.com the auction of Jordi Tard’s vinyl collection, one of the most extensive and important on the national scene
A still life by Zabaleta goes up for auction with a starting price of €20,000
The Setdart room in Madrid is auctioning the 100 by 81-centimeter oil on canvas ‘Still Life Composite’, painted by Rafael Zabaleta in 1957.
Important auction of select pieces, mostly paintings, by 19th- and 20th-century artists
Important auction of select pieces, mostly paintings, by artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its high quality is the common thread of a heterogeneous collection in terms of styles and schools that it contemplates.
Several works by Daniel Zuloaga come up for auction
The Setdart auction house will put on sale, starting next Wednesday, February 19 at 6:00 p.m., a series of pieces by the author from the collection of the Segovian businessman who died last year, Eleuterio Laguna.
Setdart Gallery bridges East and West with ‘T Kimono Jewel’
The auction house Setdart Valencia last Friday inaugurated an exclusive art and design exhibition curated by Fumiko Negishi , Carlos Muniz Y Carolina Fernandez .