Juan ALCALDE "La passante à Paris" Oil on card glued to wood panel, 44 x 32 cm a…

Description

Juan ALCALDE

"La passante à Paris" Oil on card glued to wood panel, 44 x 32 cm and 51 x 63 cm with frame, signed lower left. On the back, label from Galerie Uniarte, Barcelona, with reference: 1537-12-78. Delivery of lots free of charge to LA SALLE 20 rue DROUOT-PARIS the day after the sale (Saturday May 4) or a few days after the sale GALERIE 18, rue Grange-Batelière (25 meters from Hôtel Drouot), otherwise shipment to FRANCE at the buyer's expense by the carrier of his choice. High-resolution photos: https://bit.ly/41uZlKv

27

Juan ALCALDE

Auction is over for this lot. See the results

You may also like

Estim. 2 200 - 2 500 EUR

LUIS GRANER ARRUFÍ (Barcelona, 1863 - 1929). "Chestnut tree". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Presents craquelures. Measurements: 50 x 36 cm; 68 x 56 cm (frame). Luis Graner was formed in the School of La Lonja of Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Benito Mercadé and Antonio Caba, and in 1886 he moves to Paris thanks to a scholarship of the Diputación de Barcelona. During his five years in the French capital he obtained two third medals in the Universal Exhibitions of Barcelona (1888) and Paris (1889). Settled again in Barcelona in 1891, he continued to participate in important international exhibitions, such as those of Berlin (1891), Munich (1892), Dusseldorf (1904). He also sent works to the National Fine Arts Exhibitions, obtaining a third medal in 1895 and 1897, second in 1901 and a decoration in 1904. That same year Graner created the Sala Mercè, designed by Gaudí, where he organized his "musical visions", shows that combined poetry with music, scenography with cinema. Finally, ruined, he moved to America. He arrived in New York in 1910, and that same year held a solo exhibition at the Edward Brandus Gallery. The success of this exhibition brought Graner important commissions, among them the portrait of the tycoon Carlos B. Alexander. After spending five months in Barcelona, Graner left again for New York, his final destination being Havana. In 1911 he left Cuba for New Orleans, and shortly thereafter he was already in San Francisco. There he inaugurated an exhibition of seventy-six paintings, held at the California Club, which was the largest solo show ever held to date in the city. During this same period he painted several tapestries for the film director David W. Griffith. Before the end of the year he is back in New York, where he again exhibits individually with great success. He continues to paint portraits of important national figures, and in 1912 he holds another key exhibition, this time at The Ralston Galleries (New York). In the following years he will continue with his brilliant international career in Brazil and Chile, to finally return to the United States, where he will remain due to the outbreak of the Great War, passing through New York, New Orleans, Chicago and other cities, always exhibiting his painting with great success. In the twenties he traveled to Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba, and finally in New Orleans he was prostrated by a serious illness that irreparably damaged his mind, also transforming his work, which lost the strength and transcendence of his previous stages. Broke and ill, unable to find a market for his paintings, he finally returned to Barcelona in 1928, shortly before his death, after eighteen years of glory that ended in hardship. That same year he exhibited individually at the Ritz Hotel and at the Layetanas Galleries in Barcelona, and at the end of the year he held an important retrospective at the Sala Parés, before finally passing away in May 1929 at the age of sixty-six. His work is present in the Prado Museum, the MACBA of Barcelona, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Hispanic Society of New York and the Balaguer Museum of Vilanova i la Geltrú, among others, as well as in important Catalan private collections.

Estim. 8 000 - 10 000 EUR

JOAQUIM MIR TRINXET (Barcelona, 1873 - 1940). "Environment of a farmhouse", Mollet, c.1914. Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Attached certificate of D. Francesc Miralles. Measurements: 40 x 65 cm; 50 x 75 cm (frame). With a daring and intuitive brushstroke, Mir captures, with a vibrant Mediterranean palette, the hustle and bustle of some peasants in front of a large house surrounded by haystacks. Under the midday light, geese peck in a large open corral. The figures are integrated into the exultant nature and the blue sky reverberates on the amber straw. Through a purely personal language, Mir synthesizes the basic elements to make the scene recognizable, of particular compositional structure, while making it vibrate with his imagination. In this work, Mir demonstrates an absolute technical and atmospheric mastery, which he puts at the service of an almost animistic conception of the natural element. Joaquín Mir studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Jordi in Barcelona and in the workshop of the painter Luis Graner. His style was also influenced by the School of Olot, his father's hometown. In 1893 he formed the "Colla del Safrà" together with artists such as Isidro Nonell, Ricard Canals and Ramón Pichot, and in the last years of the century he was associated with the artistic environment of "Els Quatre Gats". He completed his training in 1895, when he spent a season in Madrid copying works by Velázquez. During these years he took part in the Fine Arts Exhibitions in Barcelona in 1894, 1896 and 1898. Winner of a second medal at the Madrid Exhibition of 1899, that same year he moved to the capital in order to compete for a scholarship in Rome. When he was unsuccessful, he went with Santiago Rusiñol to Mallorca, on a trip that would be a definitive turning point in his career. Mir was dazzled by the Mallorcan landscape, specifically by the landscape of Sa Calobra, which was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him. In 1901 he exhibited the fruit of this first Mallorcan period in Barcelona's Sala Parés, and again won a second medal at the National Exhibition. After a period of illness that forced him to move to Reus, in 1907 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona. Already consolidated as an outstanding figure of the Catalan panorama, he acquires the definitive recognition at national level in 1917, when he is awarded the National Prize of Fine Arts. Four years later he married and settled permanently in Vilanova i la Geltrú. His successes followed one after the other, and in 1929 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition in Barcelona. The following year he won the medal of honor at the National Exhibition in Madrid, an award he had been pursuing since 1922. Although he was mainly a native painter, he had solo and group exhibitions in Washington, Paris, Pittsburg, New York, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Venice. Mir is today considered the most outstanding representative of Spanish post-impressionist landscape painting. His work is preserved in the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the Prado Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among many others.

Estim. 2 500 - 3 500 EUR

Lucien Coutaud (1904-1977)

Starting price 2600 EUR

Piotr Strelnik (1956-)

Online payments are secured by Ingenico and encrypted transactions.

Each lot has been authenticated and appraised by an Auction House.

Consult our FAQ or contact us

Composed of several subsidiaries, the Drouot Group is a major player in the art market. Hôtel Drouot, located in the heart of Paris, has been the world's largest public auction center since 1852. 15 salerooms are available to more than 70 auction houses. The emulation generated by an annual offer of 230,000 artworks from 21 major specialities - from Antiquity to street art - attracts some 3,000 visitors every day. The Group's digital platform, Drouot.com, offers digital sales - Live auctions (live broadcasting and participation in auctions), Online-only auctions (dematerialised auctions) and Buy Now sales (sales of lots at fixed prices). Nearly 2 million items are offered annually by 600 auction houses. Auction news is reported every week in La Gazette Drouot, the leading weekly magazine for the art market and culture published by Auctionspress.

More about Drouot

Drouot certified auction houses

Contacts

HÔTEL DROUOT

9, rue Drouot 75009 Paris, France

+33 (0)1 48 00 20 00

[email protected]

DROUOT.com

[email protected]