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Lot 1 - Atelier KARL HAGENAUER (Austria, 1898 - 1956). "Horse". Austria, ca. 1940's. Silver-plated metal. Painted wooden base. It shows wear on the figure; scratches and damage to the base. Measurements: 24 x 30 x 6 cm (figure); 5,5 x 38 x 8 cm (base). The style of Karl Hagenauer is evident in the making of this horse: an essential and synthetic modeling, but without avoiding naturalism. The son of the goldsmith Carl Hagenauer, Karl studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Vienna, where he was taught by Josef Hoffmann and Oskar Strnad and imbued with the spirit of the Wiener Wekstätte. After obtaining his diploma in architecture, between 1917 and 1919 he did his military service, and upon his return he began to work as an architect and in his father's workshop. During these years he created numerous pieces in silver, brass, copper, enamel, ivory, stone and wood. In 1928, after the death of his father, he took over the management of the workshop and was responsible for the expansion of the firm, expanding production to include cabinetmaking and opening stores in Vienna and Salzburg. From then on he exhibited his best pieces both in Austria and abroad, was twice awarded the gold medal at the Milan Triennale and was appointed a member of the Austrian Werkbund and the Werkstätte. Today his pieces are part of collections around the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the MoMA and the Jewish Museum in New York, the Casa Lis in Salamanca and many others.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR

Lot 7 - PABLO GARGALLO CATALÁN (Maella, Zaragoza, 1881 - Reus, Tarragona, 1934). "Harlequin's Head", 1928. Drypoint on laid paper, copy 9/12. Signed in plate: PG 28. With hand-painted period frame. Presents some lack of polychrome. Some stains on the paper. Measurements: 18 x 13 cm (plate); 22 x 17 cm (paper); 43 x 37 cm (frame). Rare print by the artist. Only one edition of 12 numbered copies was made of this work. The Pablo Gargallo Museum has the original plates of the only four drypoint engravings by Gargallo (Self-Portrait, Harlequin's Head, Female Nude and Ballerina). Pablo Gargallo is considered the precursor of iron sculpture, and learned the technique of forging from his father, who owned a blacksmith shop. In 1888 his family emigrated to Barcelona for economic reasons and there he began his artistic training, in the workshop of the sculptor Eusebio Arnau and in the School of La Lonja, with Venancio Vallmitjana as his main teacher. At the height of Modernism in Barcelona, Gargallo frequented the gatherings of "Els quatre Gats", establishing relationships with artists such as Nonell and Picasso. That is why his first works are influenced by Modernism, as is the case of the decoration of Barcelona buildings that he made in collaboration with the architect Domènech i Montaner, such as the Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo or the Palau de la Música. In 1903 Gargallo obtained a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Paris to complete his studies. His stay in the French capital was brief, but from then until 1923, when he settled permanently in Paris, his trips there would be frequent. In this city he found the aesthetic formulations of cubism, assimilated its expressive systems and sought the schematism and essentiality of figures and objects, trying to find the authentic three-dimensional expression of the cubist postulates. During these years he began to use metallic materials such as sheet metal, copper and iron. Around 1911-12 he made his first masks, pieces of great simplification made with cut sheet metal, linked to the cubist aesthetic. Using sheet metal, Gargallo began to suggest volumes and exalt the voids through the penetration of light into the interiors. In 1920 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Escuela Técnica de Oficios Artísticos de la Mancomunidad de Cataluña, a post from which he was removed in 1923 for political reasons. It was then that Gargallo settled permanently in Paris with his wife and daughter. From this moment on his style acquires a very personal dimension, derived from his interpretation of cubism, based on the search for a formal synthesis of the figure in geometric planes always fluid, replacing conventional materials with wrought iron sheets, and introducing a new sculptural language by introducing the void as volume and giving his figures a great expressive dramatism. Pablo Gargallo is currently represented in the museum that bears his name in Zaragoza, the MoMA in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and the Reina Sofia in Madrid, among many others.

Estim. 1 500 - 1 800 EUR

Lot 13 - EUSEBI ARNAU MASCORT (Barcelona, 1864 - 1933) for MASRIERA Y CARRERAS. Paperweight "Ninfa", ca. 1905. Bronze on veined marble base. Signed with anagram by the author. Masriera y Carreras stamp on one side. Measurements: 9 x 5 x 8 cm (sculpture); 1,5 x 8 x 9 cm (base). The sculptor Eusebi Arnau was formed in the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona, and was a disciple of José Gamot. From 1887 he continued his studies in Rome, thanks to a scholarship from the School of La Lonja. Later he extended his training at the Julian Academy in Paris, exhibiting his works at the Salon of the French capital in 1895 and 1902. Later he opened his own workshop in Barcelona, where he had disciples such as Pablo Gargallo and Josep Dunyach. Arnau will carry out numerous commissions, such as the altarpiece of the basilica church of Santa Engracia in Zaragoza, where he worked with Josep Llimona. On the other hand, his sculptures applied to architecture made him stand out as a modernist sculptor. Some examples are those made for the Lleó Morera and Amatller houses, the Hotel España, the Palacio de la Música Catalana and the Hospital de San Pablo, all in Barcelona. He was also a regular collaborator of the architect Enric Sagnier Villavecchia, with whom he worked on the Customs building of the Port of Barcelona, the Ruper Garriga House, the Via Crucis of Montserrat, the Expiatory Temple of the Sacred Heart, the parish of the Sacred Heart of Poblenou, the agency of the Caixa de Pensions in Reus and other projects. He also excelled as a medal maker, producing, among others, the medal of the Universal Exposition of Barcelona in 1888, the Catalan Solidarity medal, the Columbus Centenary medal and the commemorative medal for the demolition of the walls of Barcelona. Throughout his life, Arnau took part in numerous exhibitions in Spain, Chicago, Mexico City and Paris. He was awarded a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition of Barcelona in 1888, an honorary diploma at the Fine Arts Exposition of the same city in 1891, and a prize at the 1896 Exposition; honorary mention in sculpture at the National Exposition of Madrid in 1899, first class medal in decorative arts at the National Exposition of 1908, gold medal of the Artistic Circle of Barcelona at the International Art Exposition of 1911, and third class medal at the National Exposition of 1912. Currently we can find public monuments by Arnau in Barcelona, Madrid and Villafranca, and other works by him in Barcelona, Comillas and Zaragoza. He is also represented in the National Art Museum of Catalonia.

Estim. 150 - 180 EUR

Lot 25 - LORENZO FRECHILLA (Valladolid, 1927 - Madrid, 1990) Untitled. Steel, copy 171/500. Signed and numbered. Velvet lined base with heavy soiling. Measurements: 12 x 9 x 5 cm (sculpture); 2 x 11 x 7,5 cm (base). Lorenzo Frechilla del Rey was a Spanish sculptor. He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Valencia. In 1948 he participated in the foundation of the avant-garde group Pascual Letreros from Valladolid. This is a literary artistic group influenced by the constructive universalism of the Uruguayan Joaquín Torres García, which was active until the first half of the 1950s. The theorist and founder of the group was the Uruguayan poet José Parrilla and the Uruguayan painters Alma Castillo and Raúl Javiel Cabrera and the Valladolid artists Publio Wifrido Otero, Gerardo Pintado, Primitivo Cano and the Cantabrian sculptor Teodoro Calderón participated in it. Until 1954 he exhibits with them. In 1951 he moved to Madrid where he met his wife Teresa Eguibar, also a sculptor. Both moved to Paris and from 1961 they joined the International East-West Group with which they toured Europe during the sixties. In 1968 he travels to the Nordic countries. He exhibited in Norway with the East-West Group and held an individual exhibition in Helsingborg, Sweden and two in Paris. In 1969 he attends the computer art seminars at the Centro de Cálculo de la Universidad de Madrid. He participates in the Exhibition on Cybernetic Art together with Eusebio Sempere, Jose Luis Alexanco, Manuel Barbadillo, Manolo Quejido, Jose Maria Yturralde and Teresa Eguibar. He died in Madrid in 1990.

Estim. 180 - 200 EUR

Lot 66 - MARINO AMAYA (Astorga, León, 1927-Andalusia, 2014). Untitled. Patinated bronze. Signed in burin at the bottom of the back. Measurements: 12 x 5 x 5 x 5 cm (figure); 3 x 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm (base). Born in Astorga, Marino Amaya was in his early years shepherd, carpenter and weaver, although with only fifteen years he obtained his first commission as a sculptor, a statue of Santiago Apostle carved in stone. He began his artistic training at the School of Arts and Crafts in Salamanca, where he obtained a scholarship to travel to Madrid in 1945, in order to further his education. Four years later, in 1949, he began a long study trip that took him to France, Italy, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Greece and, outside Europe, Egypt and Palestine. In 1950 Amaya returned to Spain and participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid, being awarded a silver medal. This success earned him in 1951 an important commission from the bishopric of León, a grandiose monument dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The following year he held his first exhibition, which took place at the Association of Writers and Artists of Madrid, and in 1954 he was presented for the first time in León, in an exhibition organized by the Provincial Council. Still in this decade he held exhibitions at the Ateneo de Santander (1956) and the Romantic Museum of Madrid (1957). In the sixties he worked intensely, also holding exhibitions in various Spanish capitals, in centers such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid (1962). Also during these years he made the international leap, appearing in 1961 in Rio de Janeiro. He will continue with his exhibition career in the seventies, and in 1974 he is named favorite son of Astorga, a town where a street will also be dedicated to him. In 1981 he held an outstanding exhibition at the Zoma Gallery in New York, where fifteen of his works were acquired by the Rockefeller Foundation. That same year he moved to Marbella, the city where he would live and work from then on, in conjunction with his studio in Madrid. In 1985 Pope John Paul II granted him an interview to see his work "The Right to Life", which was blessed by the Holy Father and is now part of the Vatican collection. This sculpture will initiate the creation of a series of works that Amaya dedicates to the life of children. Also very present in his work are animal figures, especially dogs and cats. He is a sculptor very committed to public sculpture, and today we can find works by his hand in public places all over Spain, as well as in the Mateo Hernández Museum in Béjar and other public and private collections.

Estim. 250 - 300 EUR

Lot 88 - Atelier KARL HAGENAUER (Austria, 1898 - 1956). "Ballerina". Austria, ca. 1940-50's. Silver-plated metal. No signature. Black metal base. It presents wear and some lack in the polychrome of the base. Measurements: 42 x 24 x 5 cm (figure); 2 x 40 x 9 cm (base). In the making of this slender dancer, Karl Hagenauer's style is evident: an essential and synthetic modeling typically Art Deco, but without avoiding naturalism. The son of the goldsmith Carl Hagenauer, Karl studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, where he was taught by Josef Hoffmann and Oskar Strnad and imbued with the spirit of the Wiener Wekstätte. After obtaining his diploma in architecture, between 1917 and 1919 he did his military service, and upon his return he began working as an architect and in his father's workshop. During these years he created numerous pieces in silver, brass, copper, enamel, ivory, stone and wood. In 1928, after his father's death, he took over the management of the workshop and was responsible for the expansion of the firm, expanding production to include cabinetmaking and opening stores in Vienna and Salzburg. From then on he exhibited his best pieces both in Austria and abroad, was twice awarded the gold medal at the Milan Triennale and was named a member of the Austrian Werkbund and the Werkstätte. Today his pieces are part of collections around the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the MoMA and the Jewish Museum in New York, the Casa Lis in Salamanca and many others.

Estim. 500 - 600 EUR