VICTOR VASARELY (Pécs, Hungary, 1906 - Paris, 1997)."Untitled", ca.1970-80.Lithograph, copy 29/90.Hand signed and numbered.Slight damageSize: 66.5 x 66.5 cm; 71 x 71 cm (frame).Syncopated geometric rhythms and patterns immerse us in a work that is completely distinctive of Vasarely's language. In it, the Franco-Hungarian artist relies on pure geometric composition to draw us into a cosmic universe, in which the dice seem to liquefy, defining the vibrant rhythm of his imagery.Considered the father of Op Art, Victor Vasarely began his artistic training at the Muheely school, founded in Budapest by a Bauhaus pupil. He settled in Paris in 1930, where he produced what is now considered the first Op Art work, "Zebra" (1937). In Paris he worked as a graphic designer for advertising agencies. During this period his artistic style shifted from figurative expression to a constructive and geometric type of abstract art, with an interest in the representation of perspective without vanishing points. Between 1936 and 1948 he participated regularly in the Salon des Surindependants and the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités. From 1948 onwards he exhibited regularly at the Denise René gallery. In the 1950s his work moved towards the use of new materials and supports, such as aluminium and glass. He also began to produce works that integrated with space, such as Homage to Malevich. In the 1960s he took part in numerous group exhibitions, such as The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as solo exhibitions in Europe and America. Among the numerous awards he received during his lifetime, the Guggenheim Prize (1964), the Brussels Art Critics' Prize and the gold medal at the Milan Triennial are particularly noteworthy. In 1970 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour. He is represented in the museums dedicated to him in Aix-en-Provence, Pécs and Budapest, but also in the most important contemporary art centres in the world, such as the Tate Gallery in London, the MoMA in New York, the Guggenheim in Venice and the Reina Sofía in Madrid.
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MODEST CUIXART I TÀPIES (Barcelona, 1925 - Palafrugell, Girona, 2007)."Generalus tridente. Esquerdes i bardisses", 1976.Mixed media (pastel, chalk, wax and charcoal) on paper.Signed, dated and titled in the lower right-hand corner.Size: 54 x 43 cm; 79 x 66 cm (frame).Cuixart initially studied medicine, but soon abandoned his studies to devote himself to painting, and entered the Academia Libre de Pintura in Barcelona. In 1948 he took part in the founding of the group Dau al Set, together with Brossa, Ponç, Tàpies and Tharrats, among others. Concerned with the plastic value of the sign, his work has from the outset a strong kinship with surrealism, as well as a great sensitivity towards the expressive power of colour. Towards 1955 he immersed himself in material informalism, which led him to use "grattage" in works with a certain orientalist flavour. In 1959 he won first prize at the São Paulo Biennial and exhibited at the Documenta in Kassel, and the following year he took part in an exhibition of Spanish avant-garde works at the Tate Gallery in London and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Cuixart introduced collage into his work in 1962, which gradually led him towards pop art. Enriched by all these experiences, he returned to flat painting, achieving a very personal critical realism, which synthesises expressionism with dramatically transformed figuration, always valuing chromatic qualities. In the seventies he exhibited in numerous national and international capitals, such as Paris, Madrid, São Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Basel, Barcelona and Milan, among others. In the following decade, Cuixart gradually freed his painting from its aggressive aspects to give it a more lyrical tone. He also took part in a group exhibition at the Palais de l'UNESCO in Paris, was awarded the Cross of Saint George by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Cross of Isabella the Catholic. In 1988 he holds an anthological exhibition in Japan, in the cities of Kobe and Tokyo. He continues to work with exuberant colours and forms, and reincorporates a more material figuration into his work. In 1998 the foundation named after him was created in Palafrugell, and the following year he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts by the Ministry of Culture. He is represented in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Tate Gallery in London, the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, the Contemporary Art Museums of Madrid, Barcelona and Saint-Etienne (France), the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Museo de Grabado Español Contemporáneo in Marbella, the Museo de Arte de la Universidad de São Paulo, the Museo de Arte Abstracto in Cuenca and the Museo del Ampurdán, among many others.
MIGUEL ORTIZ BERROCAL (Villanueva de Algaidas, Malaga, 1933 - Antequera, Malaga, 2006)."La maja , (Opus 162)", 1977/1978.Bronze sculpture, iron base. Exemplary 377/1000.Signed and numbered.Size: 26 x 26 x 9 cm (with base).Inspired by the main creative forces of the first half of 1900, Berrocal sought his own artistic path. He was inspired by science and created works based on mathematical, physical and scientific principles. He also developed the concept of "dismountability", understood as the process of searching for the inner forms of volumes, which implies that sculptures are composed of elements that have to be assembled and disassembled in order to penetrate their invisible space.Berrocal began his training at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid, where he was a pupil of Ángel Ferrant. He then went on to the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, where he was a pupil of Ramón Stolz. He complemented his training with work as a draughtsman in the studio of the architect Casto Fernández Shaw and as an assistant to various architects in Rome between 1952 and 1954. During his stay in Paris in 1955, he finally decided to devote himself to sculpture. His early works show the influence of Chillida, while at the same time denoting his preference for articulated and detachable forms in bronze. The difficulty involved in making each of his sculptures led him to decide to produce them in series. With this idea in mind, he produced two hundred copies of the sculpture "Maria de la O", for which he received the prize for sculpture at the Paris Biennale and which was later acquired by the MOMA in New York. In 1966 he settled permanently in Verona, and since 1968 he has alternated his work between monumental and small-scale works. Together with several gallery owners, he founded the Società Multicettera, the first industry of small sculptures. He has exhibited in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the United States, received the gold medal of the Bronze of Padua, the Grand Prize of Honour at the Brazil Biennial, and was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
VICENTE ARNÁS LOZANO (Madrid, 1949)."The Frog", 2000.Oil on canvas.Attached certificate of authenticity issued by the artist.Signed lower left corner. Signed and titled on the back.Measurements: 81 x 65 cm; 94 x 79 cm (frame).Vicente Arnás is a painter from Madrid who began his artistic career linked to the world of advertising. After several years of experience, in 1976, he had his first individual exhibition, which was held in the Macarrón gallery in Madrid. After the success of his first exhibition, he began an exhibition career that has taken him to places such as New York and different European countries. He has participated in prestigious fairs such as Arco, or Europ Art, held in Geneva. In addition, he has been awarded on numerous occasions, being medal of honour in the BMW painting prize and receiving the prize of the Real maestranza of Seville, among others. This has earned him the recognition of both the public and the critics. His painting is characterised by the recreation of dreamlike, placid worlds, where time seems to stand still. He creates worlds of realistic aesthetics, close to currents such as magical realism, or to influences such as those of the painter Arcimboldo or Bosch. For a period he was part of the group "Nueve expresiones" with whom he exhibited in several collective exhibitions.
ANTONI CLAVÉ I SANMARTÍ (Barcelona, 1913 - Saint Tropez, France, 2005)."Untitled.Mixed media on paper.Signed in the lower left corner.Size: 76 x 57 cm; 101 x 71 cm (frame).In this mixed media painting on paper, Clavé superimposes realities that seem to emerge from an organic background, like spectral faces interspersed with dense brushstrokes and areas that appear to have been resolved by frottage. Thus, organic insinuations are laminated with geometrical configurations. Clavé experiments with a variety of techniques and languages, so that on the same surface, touches of spatula, gesture, expressionism and abstraction dialogue with each other. The result is an arduous dialogue with the Baroque tradition and its play of chiaroscuro. Antoni Clavé is one of the most important figures in Spanish contemporary art. Trained at the San Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Clavé initially devoted himself to advertising graphics, illustration and the decorative arts. In 1936 he took an active part in the Civil War, joining the Republican ranks, which led him to go into exile in France at the end of the war. That same year, 1939, he exhibited the drawings he had made on the battlefields. He settled in Paris, where he met Vuillard, Bonnard and Picasso. From this period onwards, Clavé began to develop an oeuvre marked by a different, less classical style. During this period his figures gradually lost their precision and form, giving way to the lines and a personal range of colours and textures that were to become the main features of his works from that time onwards. He was already enjoying great international prestige at the time when he began to be recognised in Spain, after his exhibition at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona in 1956. In 1952 he made the sets for Charles Vidor's film "Hans Christian Andersen", and was nominated for an Oscar. In 1954 he gave up decorating to devote himself to painting. In the 1960s he painted a tribute to El Greco, and his painting at this time reveals the influences of that master, as well as those of the Baroque painters. Of particular relevance is the theme of the knight with his hand on his chest, a reference that would be repeated in Clavé's future works. This period is characterised by the definitive transition to abstraction. In the 1970s Clavé's work continued to evolve, using various techniques such as collage and inventing new ones such as "papier froissé", the result of a chance use of aerosol on crumpled paper. In 1978, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, now the Centre Georges Pompidou, devoted a retrospective to him that made him one of the most prestigious artists of his generation. In the 1980s he dedicated a series of works to Picasso under the title "To Don Pablo". His latest works are characterised by the recreation of textures within abstraction, with a profuse use of papier froissé. He was awarded prizes at the Hallimark in New York in 1948, at the Venice Biennial in 1954 and at the Tokyo International Biennial in 1957. In 1984 the Spanish state recognised his artistic value with the exhibition of more than one hundred of his works in the Spanish pavilion at the Venice Biennale. That same year he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Clavé's work can be found, among many others, in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Modern Art Museum in Paris and Tokyo, the British Museum and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.
HERNANDO VIÑES SOTO (Paris, 1904 - 1993)."The artist in her studio".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Size: 73 x 92 cm; 93 x 112 cm (frame).In this work the author rescues a very recurrent theme in the history of art, which deals with the relationship between the model and the artist. In this case we are presented with a model who is also an artist, as she stands on the barely sketched canvas with the painter's palette in her hands. Aesthetically, the work is heir to Cubism, but the artist configures the different planes on the basis of fields of colour which give volume and shape the space.Born into an upper-class bourgeois family, Hernando Viñes Soto was introduced into the Parisian artistic circle by his uncle, the pianist and composer Ricardo Viñes. During the First World War he settled in Madrid, returning to Paris in 1918. There Pablo Picasso, a friend of his uncle's, after seeing his first drawings, advised him to continue along the same path and to perfect his knowledge as a self-taught artist. Viñes followed Picasso's advice, first entering the Academy of Sacred Art in Paris, where he was a disciple of Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallieres, and then, in 1922, completing his training with André Lothe and Gino Severini. The following year he participated as a decorator in Manuel de Falla's "El retablo de Maese Pedro" and exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne. That same year, 1923, he came into contact, through his friend Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, with the circle of young Spanish artists living in Paris: Francisco Bores, Luis Buñuel, Joaquín Peinado, Francisco García Lorca, Pancho Cossío, Rafael Alberti, Ismael de la Serna, etc. At the age of twenty he decided to devote himself fully to painting, and immediately obtained the support of two important critics, Tériade and Zervos, the latter being the director of "Cahiers d'Art". From then on he exhibited regularly at the Percier and Max Berger galleries in Paris. After the Second World War a very difficult period began for the painter, in which, despite numerous group and solo exhibitions, he did not achieve the notoriety that his brilliant beginnings had promised. It was not until 1965 and the major retrospective devoted to him by the Madrid Museum of Modern Art that he was finally recognised as one of the most brilliant painters of his generation. From that moment on, exhibitions followed one after the other in leading galleries all over Spain, such as Théo (Madrid and Valencia), Dalmau (Barcelona) and Ruiz (Santander). At the beginning of the 1980s, important retrospective exhibitions were held at the Casa de España in Paris, the Fine Arts Museum in Santander and the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne. In 1988 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Arts and Letters by King Juan Carlos I. At the same time, his international fame grew as a result of exhibitions held in Germany, Denmark, the United States, Czechoslovakia, England and Japan. Far from schools and any hint of boastfulness, Viñes's work continued its path in France, and museums all over the world began to acquire his works. He is currently represented in the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museums of Albi, Castres and Saint-Ouen in France, the Fine Arts Museums of Tel-Aviv, Buenos Aires and Prague, the Patio Herreriano Contemporary Art Museum in Valladolid and the ARTIUM in Vitoria, among many others.
A group of four medals awarded to Capt. J. J. Johnstone 1/DCLI:- India General Service medal 1895 with Punjab Frontier 1897-98 bar and Tirah 1897-98 bar (3813 Sergt. J. Johnstone 1st Bn. Duke of Cornwall's LI); British War and Victory medals (Capt. J. J. Johnstone); and Army Long Service And Good Conduct medal (No. 3813 C. Sjt. J. J. Johnstone - DCLI) together with copy service papers, photocopied extracts from various newspapers and general research
A Territorial Force War medal awarded to Capt.T. Carus-Wilson DCLI together with Territorial Decoration, miniature group of 6 medals including DSO, QSA and Territorial Decoration together with two original photographs of Lieut. Col. Carus-Wilson, 1902 postal cover from South Africa to Truro TO Mrs Carus-Wilson and a selection of various research and paperwork (Commanding Officer 1/5 Bn. DCLI died of wounds 27th March 1918)
Group of 9 modern commemorative bronze medals, including 1988 Royal Mint 400th Anniversary Spanish Armada, 1992 Millennium of the Office of High Sheriff, Bi-Centenary of the Launch of the Original Lifeboat 1990, Franklin Mint Royal Commonwealth Society medal by David Cornell; etc (all loose)
4 x Large R.A.F. MultiSigned FDCs or Comm. Covers with Stamps and various postmarks including Appointment to the Excellent Order of the British Empire 1985, The Defence Medal 1988, The Award of the Distinguished Service Cross 1985, The Award of the Military Cross to Airmen 1986, good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Masonic Items Collection in a small suitcase, include A Masonic Apron with Seven Chains each with a ball on the end on each side with Adjustable Strap and fastener, plus 2 other Aprons, A Masonic Sash with T H Emblem, A Book The Brotherhood by Stephen Knight 1983, A Book The Perfect Ceremonies of Craft Masonry 1960, Plus a Masonic Medal in a box from Spencer and Co Masonic Manufacturers London, good condition. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
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