A SEATED BRONZE BUDDHA U-THONG STYLE, THAILAND, 19TH CENTURY Sentado sobre un pedestal sin decoración en la postura yóguica de piernas cruzadas de satvaparyankasana, la pierna derecha colocada sobre la izquierda. Su mano derecha está bajada, con los largos dedos apuntando hacia abajo en el gesto de tocar la tierra, o bhumisparshamudra. Este último simboliza el triunfo de Shakyamuni sobre las fuerzas del demonio Mara, que intentaba distraerle de su búsqueda de la iluminación, un tema omnipresente en el arte budista tailandés. El vestido monástico de Buda se lleva dejando el hombro derecho al descubierto, y una larga y delgada sección de tela que representa su chal estrechamente doblado cae desde el hombro izquierdo hasta debajo del ombligo terminando en dos puntos. Altura: 39 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