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

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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

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Estim. 70 000 - 80 000 EUR

LITA CABELLUT (Sariñena, Huesca, 1961). "Hidden dreams 14", 2014. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the back. Measurements: 148 x 150 cm. Lita Cabellut gives us a monumental portrait. The face of the young woman makes a deep impression with her green eyes and the burst of her red lips, which contrast with the delicacy of her complexion. Resolved with hyperreal technique, it contrasts with the informalism that reigns in the background and with the dripping that snakes over the figure and explodes on the hat. Figure and background acquire magnetic textures that awaken in the viewer the desire to touch the surface of the painting. The technical complexity and expressive results, characteristic of Cabellut's style, have made the Spaniard one of the most sought-after artists internationally. Of gypsy origin, Lita Cabellut was born in the small town of Sariñena, in Huesca, in a family with serious dysfunctionalities. Abandoned by her parents, she was raised by her grandmother in the city of Barcelona. Las Ramblas, the Boqueria market, the Port Vell and the Plaza Real, places full at the time of outsiders, artists and show business personalities but also tourists, were the scene of her childhood, marked by dyslexia and the need, at times, to beg. The death of her grandmother when she was only ten years old led to her internment in an orphanage, where, at the age of thirteen, she was adopted by an upper-class Catalan family. The paintings of Goya, Velázquez, Ribera and Rembrandt, discovered during visits to the Prado Museum, revealed her artistic vocation and in 1978 the artist held her first exhibition at the Masnou Town Hall. In 1982 she moved to Holland with her family, where she studied with a scholarship at the Gerrit Rietveld art academy until 1984. The painting of the great Dutch baroque masters was essential in the construction of her art, not so much in terms of style as technique. The artist works both oil on canvas and drawing on paper, sculpture, photography, visual poem or video art. Sometimes her works assume some aspects of the Italian "buon fresco", or she adds to her oil paintings a crackle effect that produces a strong plastic, visual impact. His work abounds in portraits, where the strong influence of Rembrandt, Francis Bacon or Jackson Pollock can be seen, all of them characterized by the expressiveness of the stroke and the disfigurement of reality, seeking to reflect the inner tearing of his models. Reflecting violence, sordidness, cruelty, which are sometimes hidden under a superficial layer of glamour, under an evanescent and ephemeral beauty, is one of his main objectives. Her work is grouped in collections or series, such as the one dedicated to Frida Kahlo or A Portrait of Human Knowledge (2012), where she effigies some of the most significant figures in the world of culture and science of the last 150 years, from Stravinsky to Marie Curie, Billy Holiday or Federico García Lorca. The artist has participated in numerous exhibitions, both solo and group, in major cities such as New York, Dubai, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Venice, Monaco and Seoul. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, such as the Gypsy Culture Award for Painting and Plastic Arts from the Institute of Gypsy Culture, in 2011. She is also one of the most sought-after living artists in the current art market. In 2015 Artprice magazine included her in 333rd place, in its list of 500 most sought-after contemporary artists, placing her only behind Miquel Barceló and Juan Muñoz as far as Spanish artists are concerned.

Estim. 6 000 - 7 000 EUR

OLGA SACHAROFF (Tiflis, Georgia, 1889 - Barcelona, 1967). "Vase". Oil on board. Attached certificate issued by Barrachina & Ramoneda. Measurements: 40 x 38 cm; 70 x 60 cm (frame). Olga Sacharoff managed to become an important representative of Catalan Noucentisme despite her Georgian origin. Already in her Parisian stay, prior to her Barcelona period, she adopted her own style in which nature and animals played an important symbolic role. Sacharoff builds in this panel an evocative vase determined by the Cezannian influence that marked the course of his production. The calm combination of bright colors immerses us in a luminous image, based on compositions reduced to the essential. This impression of silence, together with the resoundingly geometric character of the artist's drawing, creates in the work an air of timelessness, of eternal image, immortal thanks to the artist's genial touch. After studying at the School of Fine Arts in Tiflis, Sacharoff moved to Munich in 1910, where she came into contact with German expressionism. The following year he moved to Paris, where his work was initially influenced by Cézanne, and later evolved towards synthetic cubism. At the outbreak of World War I Sacharoff moved to Spain, where he settled in 1915, passing first through Mallorca to finally settle in Barcelona the following year. In fact, some historians point out that she was the introducer of cubism in Barcelona. From there she collaborated in Francis Picabia's magazine "391", considered the mouthpiece of Dadaism and published in Barcelona. He exhibited works in the Salons d'Automne in Paris in 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1928, obtaining important praise from the press and managing to organize, in 1929, a solo exhibition at the Parisian gallery Bernheim Jeune, one of the most important of the time. During these years she held an exhibition at the Layetanas Galleries in Barcelona (1934) and participated in the Montjuic Salon, of which she was appointed a member in 1935. At the outbreak of the Civil War Sacharoff returned to Paris, and in 1939 she exhibited at the Perls Gallery in New York. After the war he returned to Barcelona, and left behind the avant-garde to immerse himself in a naïve taste close to the Catalan noucentisme. His style adopted lyrical and amiable traits, and he put himself at the service of an idealized vision of Catalonia: landscapes, customs, popular types, etc. In general, compositions with multiple characters predominate at this time, depicted with schematic strokes and vivid colors. Chosen by Camón Aznar, he participates in the I Salón de los Once de Eugenio D'Ors (1943), held at the Biosca Gallery in Madrid. Two years later he organized a retrospective of his Parisian work, and in 1960 the General Directorate of Fine Arts dedicated an anthological exhibition to him. In 1964 he was awarded the Medal of the City of Barcelona. Sacharoff also illustrated books, with examples such as "La casa de Claudine" by Colette (1944) and "Netochka Nezvanova" by Dostoevsky (1949). Recently an anthology was dedicated to her in duo with María Blanchard in Bilbao (BBK Exhibition Hall, 2002). Olga Sacharoff is represented in the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid, the Reina Sofia National Center, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco Casa Lis, the Marés Museum, the Pablo Gargallo Museum in Zaragoza and the Monastery of Montserrat, among many others.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 200 EUR

Spanish school; XIX century. "The seesaw". Oil on canvas. Relined. Measurements: 46,5 x 35 cm; 62 x 50 cm (frame). This work follows the models of one of the tapestry cartoons made by Goya. According to the study of the Goya Foundation "Around 1856 or 1857 this carton was taken from the Royal Tapestry Factory to the Royal Palace of Madrid. In 1870 the cartoons for tapestries that were in the basements of the Palace were transferred to the Prado Museum, then called the Museum of Painting and Sculpture. At that time, six of Goya's cartoons were missing, including the one in question. This carton was lost track of for many years until it was brought to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from a private collection in 1975. It was donated by Anna Warren Ingersoll". One of the most outstanding painters in the history of universal art, Francisco de Goya received his first drawing and painting lessons from José Luzán Martínez, who taught at his home and also at the Academy of Drawing founded in Zaragoza in 1754. After three years of studies with this teacher, Goya applied for a pension from the Royal Academy of San Fernando in 1763, at the age of seventeen. It seems that by then he was already a student of Francisco Bayeu, who had returned from court. However, Goya did not manage to enter the Academy, nor when he tried again in 1766. Around 1770 he undertook a trip to Italy to broaden his training and improve his possibilities. There he would leave evidence of his early taste for the grotesque and the satirical. After a long career, Goya was replaced as Pintor de Cámara by Vicente López, and he entered a period of isolation, bitterness and illness that led him to seclude himself in the Quinta del Sordo, on the outskirts of Madrid, where he produced his supreme work: the Pinturas Negras (Black Paintings). Fed up with the absolutism imposed by Ferdinand VII in Spain, Goya finally left for France in 1824, where he met with exiled liberal friends. There he spent his last years and produced his final work, "The Milkmaid of Bordeaux", in which he anticipated impressionism. Today his work is part of the most important art galleries in the world, from the Prado Museum to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Louvre in Paris or the National Gallery in London.

Estim. 1 500 - 3 000 EUR

Ablade GLOVER (b. 1934), attributed to Untitled, 1991 Oil on canvas Signed "GLO" and dated "91" lower right 60.3 x 75.5 cm Framed Condition report available on request: [email protected] Comparative works : - Van Ham sale May 05, 2019 in Cologne, p. 56 - Bonham's London sale, October 12, 2023, p. 199 NOTICE Born in Ghana in 1934, Ablade Glover studied extensively at institutions such as London's Central School of Art and Design (1959-1962) and in the United States. After completing his doctorate, he held various educational positions in Kumasi, including that of Dean of the School of Fine Arts. A well-known artist who received the Alumni Award from the African-American Institute in New York, his works are exhibited in various institutions and public places, including UNESCO headquarters in Paris and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. His abstract knife technique translates the abundance of Ghana's homes, markets and people.

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