15th July - Private Collection II

Lot 101 - MANOLO HUGUÉ (Barcelona, 1872 - Caldas de Montbui, Barcelona, 1945). "Peeling corncobs", 1912. Pencil drawing on paper. Without signature. With label of the Galerie Louise Leiris and Galerie Simon on the back. Measurements: 26 x 35 cm; 46 x 39 cm (frame). Manuel Martínez Hugué, Manolo Hugué, was formed in the School of the Fish market of Barcelona. Regular participant of the gatherings of "Els Quatre Gats", he became friends with Picasso, Rusiñol, Mir and Nonell. In 1900 he moved to Paris, where he lived for ten years. There he resumed his relationship with Picasso, and became friends with other avant-garde theorists such as Apollinaire, Modigliani, Braque and Derain. In the French capital he worked on the design of jewelry and small sculptures, influenced by the work of his friend, the sculptor and goldsmith Paco Durrio. In 1892 he worked with Torcuato Tasso on decorative works for the celebrations of the centenary of the Discovery of America. Between 1910 and 1917, completely dedicated to sculpture, he worked in Ceret, where he gathered a heterogeneous group of artists among whom Juan Gris, Joaquín Sunyer and, again, Picasso stood out. During these years he held exhibitions in Barcelona, Paris and New York. In 1932 he was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Jorge in Barcelona. In Hugué's work, what is essential is the relationship with nature, taking into account the human figure as an integrated element in it. This is a characteristic of Noucentista classicism, but in Hugué's hands it goes beyond its limited origins. He usually represented peasants, although he also depicted bullfighters and dancers -as can be seen on this occasion-, always portrayed with a level of detail and an appreciation of the textures that reveal his former training as a goldsmith. In his artistic production coexist the Mediterranean tradition, Greek classicism and archaism, and the art of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, with the European avant-garde that he assimilated and knew firsthand, specifically Matisse's Fauvism and Cubism. Works by Hugué are kept in the MACBA, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the National Art Museum of Catalonia and the Reina Sofia National Museum and Art Center, among many others.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 102 - 19th century Spanish school. "Two heads of a man". Pencil on paper. Without signature. Presents small rust stain on the top of the paper. Measurements: 6,5 x 10 cm; 10,5 x 15,5 cm (frame). This portrait shows the physiognomy of two gentlemen characterized with verism and detailed stroke.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 103 - Spanish school of the mid-twentieth century. "Young man with watering can". Pencil drawing and colored pencils on paper. Without signature. Measurements: 42 x 28 cm; 59 x 45 cm (frame). A fine and elegant stroke defines a young woman watering with a watering can. While the face and arms have been delicately defined, the rest of the body and the object are only intuited in a sketchy composition.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 104 - EDUARDO VICENTE PÉREZ (Madrid, 1909 - 1968). "On the train tracks". Watercolor on paper. Signed in the lower left corner. The paper has wrinkles and slight tears. Measurements: 41 x 60 cm; 65 x 84 cm (frame). Master in the representation of the daily life of Madrid, Eduardo Vicente was formed in the School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and he was related with the most outstanding intellectuals of the time. He was an important representative of the Madrid school, juror in 1951 of the First Hispano-American Art Biennial and invited to the Venice Biennial. He is currently represented in the MNCA Reina Sofía, the Municipal de Madrid, the Sacred Art Museum of Orihuela, the National Art Museum of Catalonia, the National Library and other collections, both public and private.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 105 - Japanese school of the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. "Birds". Embroidered with gold and silver thread. It shows wear and faults. Measurements: 33 x 33 cm; 50 x 50 cm (frame). The feathered wings of this Japanese bird unfold imposing on a vegetal background. Flowers of white petals dot the background and stand out for their vaporous delicacy.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 106 - Spanish school of the second half of the 20th century. "Confidència", October 1957. Charcoal and color on paper. Signed, dated and dedicated at the bottom. Measurements: 30 x 38 cm; 47,5 x 56 cm (frame). The vaporous and blurred stroke defines a composition in which two women confess their deepest feelings.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 107 - Spanish school of the 20th century. "Marina". Oil on board. Signed "G. Sanmartin" in the lower left corner. Measurements: 17 x 22 cm; 32 x 36,5 cm (frame). We see in this canvas a maritime detail built through a warm light and volumetric spots of color, perfectly balanced to reflect with naturalism the visual impression of a fleeting moment of the day. The space appears barely defined at a compositional level, but perfectly constructed through color, the play of light and reflections and the placement of the different elements.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 108 - Spanish school of the 20th century. "Dancer". Colored pencils on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 23 x 18 cm; 42 x 34,5 cm (frame). A synthetic but tremendously expressive stroke defines a female figure in movement.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 109 - FRANCISCO RIBA-ROVIRA (Barcelona, 1913-Paris, 2002). "Urban view". Pencil drawing on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. It does not preserve the glass. Measurements: 63 x 48 cm; 78 x 65 cm (frame). Formed in the Superior School of Fine Arts of Barcelona, Francisco Riba-Rovira began to harvest successes with his painting a couple of months before the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His opposition to Franco forced him to go into exile in France, where he was persecuted and imprisoned by the Gestapo during the German occupation. During his years in Paris he met Gertrude Stein, who introduced him to Picasso and introduced him to her circle of friends. Because of their relationship, Riba-Rovira made a portrait of Gertrude Stein that appears in the catalog, with a foreword by Gertrude Stein, for the Roquepine Gallerie exhibition in 1945. His style fits into the so-called "Modern School of Paris". According to Petisné-Giresse, in many of Riba-Rovira's figures we find a hieratism evocative of El Greco, and, "on the contrary, everything is animated in the landscapes. The whole is orchestrated in a kind of baroque ballet. The trees, the water of the river participate in the concert". He also worked an essential cubism. Throughout his career he exhibited at the Salons d'Automne and the Salons des Indépendants, at the Cincinnati Art Museum and in New York, among other important cities.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 110 - ALFONSO DE GUZMÁN (Spain, 20th century). "Caricature of a woman". Charcoal and colored crayons on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. Presents stains. The frame is missing. Measurements: 24 x 31 cm; 44 x 51 cm (frame). An exaggerated and distorted female face stars in this drawing on paper.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 111 - Spanish school of the first half of the 20th century. "Maternity", 1931. Brass relief. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Measurements: 48 x 42 cm. In this piece the artist resorts to maternity as a theme to give life to an inert material. Starting from figuration, the relief ascends towards a figuration of pure and emphatic forms that are not detached from reality but that aspires to the immutable. The sinuous forms, roundings and hollows are presented as a game in which light and shadows play a great role.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 112 - JACQUELINE R. PAGÉS (Madrid, ca.1900). "Female portrait".1933. Charcoal and colored pencil on paper. Signed, dedicated and dated. Measurements: 35 x 25 cm; 54 x 45 cm (frame). Painter from Madrid. She participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Madrid in 1934 with a painting of a woman's head (Catalogue of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts of 1934, p. 47). She was a disciple of Bernardino de Pantorba.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 113 - ANTONIO TEIXEIRA CABRAL (Funchal, 1908- Lisbon, 1980). "Character". Ink drawing on paper. Signed and dedicated in the lower right corner. Measurements: 49 x 26 cm; 65 x 42 cm (frame). António Teixeira Cabral was a caricaturist who began his artistic activity in the late 1920s. He worked with the personal caricature, integrated in the Portuguese modernism, standing out for its synthetic trait of critical sense and subtle humor. As a curiosity it is worth mentioning that the artist's self-caricature was constantly inserted in his work together with the image of the portrayed person.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 114 - Spanish school of the first half of the 20th century. "Still life with melon and plums". Oil on canvas. Without signature. Measurements: 36 x 45 cm; 54 x 62 cm (frame). In this canvas we see a still life that refers to post-impressionism in its luminous conception, although the invoice is clearly personal, playing with planes and textures closer to informalism and even illustration.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 115 - Basque school of the mid-twentieth century. "Shepherd". Oil on canvas. Without signature. Measurements: 55 x 45 cm; 71 x 62 cm (frame). During the twentieth century the Basque school lived a splendor and a resurgence of aesthetic forms, becoming a center of great artistic interest thanks to the development of painting and sculpture. Starting from the idiosyncrasy of the popular culture of the Basque Country, the artists reformulated the concepts providing a new image, but with a great symbolic load linked to the land and tradition.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 116 - European school of the 20th century. "Vase". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower right corner. Presents patch on the back. Measurements: 40 x 32 cm; 57 x 50 cm (frame). In this work the author uses a language of post-impressionist heritage to address a traditional theme in art since the Baroque, the painting of flowers. However, the approach to the theme is totally modern; the space disappears, the vase becomes a stain of color and the flowers constitute an exhibition of light and color.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 117 - Spanish school of the mid-20th century. "Urban landscape". Oil on táblex. Painted on both sides. Illegible signature in the lower right corner. Measurements: 23 x 32 cm; 43 x 52 cm (frame). In this work the author offers us an image worked with an impressionist technique of loose and expressive brushstroke. The palette is limited, dotted with browns in the shadows, which effectively build the space and the play of colors.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 118 - Spanish school of the first third of the 20th century. "Coastal landscape with lighthouse". Oil on cardboard. With illegible signature in the lower left corner. Measurements: 24 x 33 cm; 36 x 45 cm (frame). Of great detail, this oil painting is determined by its loose and impastoed execution that reflects the atmospheric values of a fleeting and unrepeatable moment.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 119 - SANTOS SAAVEDRA (Toledo, 1903 - 1997). "Bullfighting scene". Oil on paper glued to cardboard. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 30 x 40 cm; 44 x 54 cm (frame). Painter specialized in the bullfighting theme. This work is part of the rise of regionalism in Spain in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth century, developed an art of romantic heritage, costumbrista and realistic and detailed invoice, which focused on the representation of issues, themes and characters that reflect a new sense of folklore. In this context, the painters sought to reflect the types and customs of their own land, which made it different and unique, thus vindicating their own roots and, above all, the traditions and ways of dressing and behaving that were threatened by the notable growth of urban areas and the imposition of new fashions brought from outside. Art, fundamentally in its pictorial aspect, thus becomes in a certain way a vehicle of expression capable of making regional peculiarities known to the rest of the nation.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 120 - LORENZO GOÑI (Jaén, 1911 - Lausanne, Switzerland, 1992). "Violinist". Ink on paper. Signed in the lower left corner. The paper has slight stains. The frame is missing. Measurements: 12,5 x 8 cm; 14 x 18 cm (frame). Considered one of the best Spanish illustrators of the XX century, Lorenzo Goñi was formed in Barcelona, and at the beginning of the Civil War he began to work as a poster artist for the Sindicat de Dibuixants Professionals de UGT. In 1953 he studied engraving at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Gráficas, where his teacher was José de Castro Gil. In 1962 he obtained a scholarship from the March Foundation, and since then his career continues unstoppable; he will paint and publish drawings in newspapers, holds exhibitions of his work and obtains awards and excellent reviews. He is currently represented in the MNCA Reina Sofía, the Museo Nacional de Grabado Contemporáneo, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Toledo, the Museo Provincial de Cuenca, the Museo de Alejandría, the Museo del Dibujo Castillo de Larrés, the Museo del Grabado in Marbella, the Sztuki in Wroclaw (Poland) and the ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración in Madrid.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 121 - AGUSTÍN ALBALAT IRANZO (Valencia, 1930 - Madrid, 1965). "Sketches: Land Rover Stand (Linares) Retiro". Mixed media on paper. With title on the back. Measurements: 16 x 29 cm (irregular); 32,5 x 45,5 cm (frame). Painter born in Valencia. His artistic vocation led him to enter the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, where he came into contact with a group of restless young people. In 1950 he obtained the Landscape Pension from the Provincial Council of Valencia. In the beginning he was attracted by the light and clarity of the French impressionists, but in 1952 there was a profound change in his painting, moving away completely from his initial figurative painting to evolve to more personal forms of expression that put him in relation to cubism and magical unrealism. In 1955 he won the First Prize in the Salón de Otoño del Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia. In 1956 he became a member of the Parpalló Group. In 1958 he was awarded the "Conde de Cartagena" Scholarship and in 1959 the Painting Prize of the March Foundation. He participated in the Venice Biennial of 1962. Works by this artist can be found in the Ateneo Mercantil of Valencia, the Popular Museum of Contemporary Art of Villafamés (Castellón) and the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 122 - Spanish school of the 20th century. "Bust of a young man". Mixed media on panel. Signed illegibly in the lower left corner. Measurements: 28 x 20 cm; 41 x 35 cm (frame). The avant-garde character of this female portrait can be seen in the fragmentation of the face in geometric shapes. Each of these forms adopts a particular color tone that varies from the rest.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 123 - Spanish school of the first half of the 20th century. "Interior scene", 1927. Oil on panel. Signed "Mena" and dated in the lower left corner. Presents chipped on the sides. Measurements: 37 x 46 cm. This work shows an interior through a figurative aesthetic where the synthesis and purity of forms is very present. The artist captures the scene with a fine avant-garde vision that stands out for a certain elegance and intimacy transmitted thanks to a series of subtle variations in volumes, lines and tonalities.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 124 - MIQUEL BLAY I FÀBREGUES (Olot,1866 - Madrid, 1936). "Reincorporation of Strasbourg to France". Painted stucco ceiling. Signed in the upper right corner. Leather frame with some faults. Measurements: 30 x 36 cm; 42 x 49 cm (frame). Sculptor and draftsman. He made his apprenticeship in the School of Drawing and Painting of Olot, directed by Josep Berga i Boix and Joaquín Vayreda. Later in Italy and France he received a solid artistic training, and in Paris he attended the workshop of the sculptor Henri Chapu. In 1892 he received the first medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid for his sculpture Los primeros fríos, a work that with its modernist language influenced a whole generation of Catalan sculptors. This work was also awarded a gold medal in Barcelona in 1894. In that city is the bronze version3 and in the Botanical Garden Carlos Thays, in Buenos Aires, the marble version, acquired in 1906 by Eduardo Schiaffino. In 1900 he won the first medal at the Universal Exposition in Paris, was awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1901, and remained in the French capital until 1906, when he settled in Madrid, where he was already a recognized artist. He was a great master of sculptors, he had in his workshop among others the Tarragona-born Julio Antonio (1889-1919). He introduces in his sculpture with an extreme naturalism, all the elements of modernism. He collaborated with the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner with a sculpture The popular song, placed in a corner of the facade of the Palace of Catalan Music in Barcelona, a totally modernist work. In 1909 he was appointed member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and professor of modeling at the School of San Fernando, a position he held until 1925 when he was appointed director of the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.4 He died on January 22, 1936,5 and was buried in the Sacramental of San Lorenzo in Madrid. MONUMENTS 1903 Monument to Víctor Chávarri. Portugalete (Vizcaya).1906 Monument to Doctor Federico Rubio. Madrid.1907 Sculptural group in the Palace of the Catalan Music. Barcelona.1909 Monument to Mariano Moreno. Buenos Aires (Argentina)1914 Monument to Mesonero Romanos. Madrid.1914 Monument to José Pedro Varela. Montevideo (Uruguay).1914 Monument to the Count of Romanones. Guadalajara. 1910 (inauguration 1922) Group La Paz and bas-reliefs in the Monument to Alfonso XII of the Gardens of the Buen Retiro. Madrid. Sculptural groups in the Fountain of the Plaza de España (Barcelona).

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 125 - Spanish school of the mid-20th century. "Pitcher". Oil on cardboard adhered to board. Signed illegibly in the lower left corner. It has some faults on the sides. Measurements: 22 x 30 cm; 29 x 37 cm (frame). In this work the author captures an austere composition composed by a pitcher on an indeterminate background. The author focuses on the chromatic work, looking for the harmony of the brown tones.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 126 - Spanish school, early twentieth century. Untitled. Acrylic on canvas. No visible signature. It presents craquelados and some lack of matter. Measurements: 54 x 44 cm; 66 x 57 cm (frame). This composition oscillates between figuration and abstraction, suggesting a fragment of forest with deciduous trees among the frond of an intense lemon green.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 127 - Spanish school of the mid-twentieth century. Untitled. Colored pencils on paper. Signed illegibly in the lower right corner. Measurements: 9 x 14 cm; 20 x 29 cm (frame). The work in tender is defined by its figurative character, although the abstraction and purity of forms is very present, usual and characteristic element of the Spanish school of the first half of the twentieth century. The author captures the scene with a fine avant-garde vision that stands out for a certain elegance and intimacy transmitted thanks to a series of subtle variations in volumes, lines and tonalities.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 128 - Spanish school of the first half of the 20th century. "Landscape". Mixed media on wood. The frame is damaged. Measurements: 21 x 29 cm; 41 x 50 cm (frame). The work that is presented shows a colorful landscape of purely impressionist mood. To the intense green color predominant in the whole piece is joined a clear sky at sunset.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 129 - Spanish school of the late nineteenth century-early twentieth century. "Women lying down". Pencil on paper. Without signature. Presents humidity stains and wooden frame with scratches. Measurements: 15 x 21 cm; 34 x 40 cm (frame). We are before a work in which the introspective language of the artist is expressed in all its essence. The painter speaks to us here of the extreme vulnerability of the human being, but without falling into expressionist stridencies.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 130 - FIDEL BOFILL BOSCH (Vic, Barcelona, 1934-2013). "La soca vella". Oil on cardboard. Signed in the lower right corner. Signed and titled on the back. Measurements: 28 x 20 cm; 45 x 37 cm (frame). Painter, musician, poet and ceramist, Fidel Bofill studied Fine Arts at the Municipal School of Vic and, later, with the painter Pous-Font. Later he will improve his artistic knowledge with the painter Joaquim Asensio. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in various European countries, and has taken part in numerous competitions, being distinguished with awards such as the Gold Medals City of Vic, Avignon and Arles, the Silver of Marseille, the Cup of the City of Paris, the Medal of the city of Lavaur and the award "La Pace nel Mondo". He is currently represented at the Hispanic Society of New York, the Spanische Botschaft in Brussels, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Coral Gables (USA), the Museum of Fine Arts in Valencia, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and Pretoria, the Dar Si Said Museum in Marrakech, the Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Belgium and the Zabaleta Museum in Quesada, among many other important museums and collections.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 131 - Spanish school of the first half of the 20th century. Untitled. Oil on circular ceramic plate. Measurements: 30 cm (diameter); 43 x 42,5 cm (frame). Following the line of abstraction, the author seeks in this plate the dynamism and rhythm obtained from the juxtaposition of shapes and nuanced colors.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

Lot 132 - MADELEINE MASSONNEAU (New York, 1901- Boissise-la-Bertrand, France, 1989). "Fish". Oil on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 15 x 21 cm; 32 x 37 cm (frame). A student of Louis-François Biloul, Paul Baudoüin and Ferdinand Humbert, Madeleine Massonneau was definitively admitted to the painting section of the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1923. She was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1928. She exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1925 to 1932 and then at the Salon des Indépendants until the 1980s. She is the author of several works acquired by the State and of numerous frescoes realized in Saint-Nazaire, Pornichet, Fontainebleau, Saint-Gratien and Paris.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 133 - Spanish school of the first half of the twentieth century. "Pensativo", 1939. Ink and pencil on paper. Signed illegibly and dated in the lower right corner. It has flaws in the paper. The frame has scratches. Measurements: 19.5 x 16 cm; 33 x 28 cm (frame). The artist of this sketch drawing gives us a calm and tranquil image of a pensive young man.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 134 - JUAN ANTONIO VALCARCEL (Catalonia, 20th century). Untitled. Trencadís. Ceramic tiles. Signed on the back. The frame has scratches. Measurements: 30 x 39 cm; 42 x 52 cm (frame). The trencadís is a procedure based on the use of ceramic fragments joined with mortar, with the particularity that they are irregular pieces. Returning to the Mediterranean tradition of using tiles in masonry, Antoni Gaudí created this technique from the use of waste material from the Pujol i Bausis artistic ceramics factory. He had the invaluable collaboration of Josep Maria Jujol, who created the mosaics and gave them their characteristic personality.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 135 - "JEAN CASTANIER"; JOAN CASTANYER (Blanes, 1903-Antibes, France, 1972). "Abstract composition". Oil on táblex. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 24 x 40 cm; 35 x 52 cm (frame). Painter, decorator, film director, screenwriter and writer, Jean Castanier visited Paris as early as 1925. He maintained a close relationship with the great artists and intellectuals of his time, such as Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. His entry into the history of cinema comes from his close collaboration with the filmmaker Jean Renoir. Unfortunately, his pictorial work is unknown. César Gonzalez-Ruano, a Spanish journalist and writer whom he met in the 1940s in Paris, says of him that "as a painter he was in a cubism evolved towards the realistic primitivism of Dalí". The University of California conserves thirteen works by Castanyer, received by this institution through a donation from a collector.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 136 - ANDRÉ BRÉCHET (Delémont, Switzerland, 1921-1993). Untitled. Mixed media and collage on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 20 x 8,5 cm; 33 x 20 cm (frame). Painter, sculptor and glassmaker, André Bréchet was trained at the Kunstgewebeschule in Basel. After traveling for a long time, he settled in Paris, where he was a student of André Lhote and Fernand Léger. During this period in the French capital he frequented notably the Swiss sculptors Alberto Giacometti and Jean Tinguely, the French poet Paul Fort, the French cubist painter Jacques Villon and the Catholic writer Paul Claudel. He created stained glass windows for churches in Switzerland, the United States and France.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 137 - JOSÉ NAVARRO LLORENS (Valencia, 1867 - 1923). "Composition. Watercolor on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 7 x 11,5 cm; 29 x 34 cm (frame). José Navarro Llorens was directed very early to painting, and he studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos, in his hometown. After his student period we lose track of him, and we will not find him again until 1895 when, according to Pantorba, he participated for the first and only time in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, obtaining an honorary mention. That same year was the year of the consecration of Joaquín Sorolla, who unanimously won the first medal in that contest. Although they were lifelong friends, it is possible that Navarro, given his bohemian and humble character, did not aspire, like Sorolla, to make a brilliant career of official laurels and courtly prestige. It seems that he never intended to project his work beyond a limited local scope, as can be deduced from the fact that, in his early years, he devoted himself to painting costumbrista and gallant scenes for fans. Nevertheless, his early works show a certain influence of the style of Mariano Fortuny, whom Navarro admired, and from whose example he may have been inspired to travel to Morocco in a second stage. This trip must have taken place shortly after finishing his studies, and he devoted himself to painting local, North African and Orientalist themes. At the beginning of the 20th century he was hired to decorate a palace in Buenos Aires, although Navarro never arrived in Argentina. He embarked with such a destination, but during a stopover in Rio de Janeiro the painter decided to stay there indefinitely. In the Brazilian city he continued to work and held an exhibition that was widely celebrated. However, nostalgia for his homeland, the absolute protagonist of his pictorial language, led him to return to Valencia, settling permanently in Godella. There he lived the rest of his life in a simple and humble way, giving painting classes at the town's Academy and painting tirelessly. His style draws from various influences, such as Fortuny, Domingo Marqués or Levantine luminism, but always manifested itself deeply personal, linked to Navarro's own way of understanding the world. His painting refers to Mediterranean clarity through beautiful transparencies, a corporeal luminosity and nervous and vibrant brushstrokes. His is an energetic, robust and vital realism, which turns light into a plastic and even tactile value, rather than a chromatic one. José Navarro is represented in the Fine Arts Museums of Valencia and Asturias, the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga and in the Gerstenmaier collection, among other public and private collections.

Estim. 200 - 250 EUR

Lot 138 - JUAN ANTONIO VALCARCEL (Catalonia, XX century). "Still life". Trencadís. Ceramic tiles. Without signature. Some tiles have fractures. Some lack. Slight lack of polychrome on the frame. Measurements: 15 x 50 cm; 46 x 83 cm (frame). The trencadís is a procedure based on the use of ceramic fragments joined with mortar, with the particularity that they are irregular pieces. Returning to the Mediterranean tradition of using tiles in masonry, Antoni Gaudí created this technique from the use of waste material from the Pujol i Bausis artistic ceramics factory. He had the invaluable collaboration of Josep Maria Jujol, who created the mosaics and gave them their characteristic personality.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 139 - Spanish school of the 20th century. Untitled. Watercolor on paper. Signed with initial "M". in the lower right corner. Measurements: 26 x 69 cm.; 42 x 86 cm.(frame). Pictorial composition resolved with bright and contrasting shades, so that the genre of still life of fruit, seafood and crockery on a shelf receives a treatment of modern concept.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 140 - Spanish school of the first half of the 20th century. "Bullicio". Charcoal on paper. Signed "Sotomayor" in the lower right corner. Measurements: 48 x 52 cm; 57 x 61 cm (frame). This drawing is intended as a preparation for a finished work or as visual notes. Studies are often used to understand the problems involved in depicting subjects and to plan the elements to be used in finished works, such as light, color, form, perspective and composition. Studies can have more impact than more elaborately planned works because of the new knowledge the artist gains as he or she explores the subject matter. These details help reveal the thought processes and techniques of many artists. Studies even date back to the early Italian Renaissance, from which art historians preserve some studies of Michelangelo.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 141 - Spanish school of the second half of the 20th century. Untitled. Oil on panel. Blurred and faint signature in the lower right corner. Measurements: 28 x 21 cm; 41,5 x 31,5 cm (frame). Following the line of abstraction, the artist seeks in this painting the dynamism and rhythm obtained from the juxtaposition of shapes and blue, black and brown colors.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 142 - Spanish school of the late 19th century-early 20th century. Untitled. Gouache on paper. Without signature. Presents cracks and tears in the paper. Measurements: 45 x 60 cm; 74 x 94 cm (frame). Two sorrowful faces melt in an embrace. The blurred and vaporous forms contribute certain lyricism to a poetic and tremendously expressive composition.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 143 - Spanish school of the second half of the 20th century. Untitled. Oil on paper. Unsigned. Measurements: 47 x 62 cm; 84 x 100 cm (frame). Following the line of abstraction, the artist seeks in this painting the dynamism and rhythm obtained from the juxtaposition of shapes and brown and greenish colors.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 144 - Spanish school of the first half of the 20th century. "Band of music". Oil on circular ceramic plate. Signed illegibly on the back. Measurements: 19 cm (diameter plate); 38 x 39 cm (frame) . This folkloric composition starring three ladies playing the harp, violin and a wind instrument is related to the aesthetics of Picasso's ceramics. The composition is inspired by Classical Antiquity and is characterized by its broad, synthetic line.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Lot 145 - DOMINGO SARREY (Santander, 1948). Untitled, 1973. Oil on panel. Signed and dated in the right central margin. Measurements: 45 x 54 cm; 63 x 72 cm (frame). Domingo Sarrey is a visual artist born in Santander. His first video art work was generated at the Computer Center of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1968, while he was studying physics, although he had already made other cinematographic creations in 8 mm. He was the first artist to create and exhibit a multivision with six projectors, "PANORAMA 78", at the MEAC (Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art) in 1978. Other works such as "Villa María", "La Fábrica", "Palabras ", "Emisión de radio", "Lectura", etc., were produced between 1972 and 1982, and were exhibited as the first manifestations of video art as an artistic medium in some of the most renowned galleries, art centers and institutions such as the Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander 1978, the Galería Juana Mordó, 1979, the Espacio P (by Pedro Gardel) 1982, La Casa de Velázquez, 1982, the Liceo Francés 1983, or Fundación Juan March 1984, among others.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Lot 146 - ARTURO MANZANO (Udine, 1901 - 1981). "Urban view". Oil on canvas. Signed in the upper left corner. Measurements: 37 x 49 cm; 55 x 67 cm (frame). Arturo Manzano was a self-taught painter and art critic. He has to his credit dozens of articles and essays on art criticism. He is present in the Gallery of Modern Art of Udine. A cultural commitment deployed with remarkable professionalism in this field made him an outstanding protagonist in the first decades after World War II, when the debate on art issues was heated. At that time, Manzano enriched the ongoing cultural ferment with interventions that were often not very accommodating, but which, albeit with a certain intransigence, made important contributions to the cultural growth of Friuli. At a certain point, the love he cultivated for art was also expressed through his pictorial practice, which allowed him to express his homage to the Friulian soul through his interpretation of the rural landscape, realized with synthetic pictorial mixtures, executed with full-bodied and immediate brushstrokes, without descriptive inflections.

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

15th July - Private Collection II

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Lot 102 - 19th century Spanish school. "Two heads of a man". Pencil on paper. Without signature. Presents small rust stain on the top of the paper. Measurements: 6,5 x 10 cm; 10,5 x 15,5 cm (frame). This portrait shows the physiognomy of two gentlemen characterized with verism and detailed stroke.

Lot 108 - Spanish school of the 20th century. "Dancer". Colored pencils on paper. Signed in the lower right corner. Measurements: 23 x 18 cm; 42 x 34,5 cm (frame). A synthetic but tremendously expressive stroke defines a female figure in movement.

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