A SEATED DERWISH, PERSIA 19TH-20TH CENTURY Gouache colors heightened with gold on paper, depicting a seated derwish wearing colorful turban, seated under a tree amidst birds and animals, ruled by polychome borders and stylized with gilt floral scrolls. The margins with traces of gilding. Painting: 18 by 24 cm. Miniature: 28 by 36 cm.

Sunset in the Park, Francisco Torrescassana (Barcelona, ​​1845-ibidem, 1918), 19th century Catalan school Signed and dated 1875, canvas measurements: 46 x 35 cm, framed measurements: 52 x 40 cm. Spanish painter, disciple of Ramón Martí Alsina. Works by Torrescassana are preserved, among others, in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, the Víctor Balaguer Library Museum, or the Museum of Art of Gerona, and the collection of Banco Sabadell, with a painting dedicated to the vintage in which the traditional realism that characterized much of his painting, closely linked to the teachings received from Martí Alsina, opens up to new studies of light. As for portraits, also abundant in his artistic production, the University of Barcelona keeps the portrait of Pablo González Huebra in the rectoral gallery, as well as in the dining room of Antoni Gaudí's Casa Vicens. Bibliography: Alcolea, Santiago, Paintings of the University of Barcelona. Catalog, University of Barcelona, ​​1980, ISBN 84-852-5721-9