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Lot 90
ALBERT RÀFOLS CASAMADA (Barcelona, 1923 - 2009).Composition, 2000.Watercolour, coloured pencils and pastel on paper with poetry glued to cardboard. Framed with passe-partout.Signed and dated in the lower left corner.Provenance: Private collection.Size: 17 x 21 cm.After a brief figurative period, the 50's gave way to a more schematic and structured conception of reality, with a clearly abstractionist bias, which he would cultivate throughout the rest of his life. During the 1990s until the end of his career, his production is interpreted as a study of his own work. His compositions, stable and calm, show a structural purity taken to the extreme in which symmetry, order and balance configure the use of space dominated by geometry and the complementarity of colours.A painter, teacher, writer and graphic artist, Ràfols Casamada enjoys great international prestige today. He started out in the world of drawing and painting with his father, Albert Ràfols Cullerés. In 1942 he began studying architecture, although he soon abandoned it to devote himself to the plastic arts. His father's post-impressionist influence and his particular cézannism marked the works presented in his first exhibition, held in 1946 at the Pictòria galleries in Barcelona, where he exhibited with the group Els Vuit. Subsequently, he gradually developed a poetic abstraction, amorphous in its configuration, free and intelligent, the fruit of a slow gestation and based on atmospheres, themes, objects or graphics from everyday life. Ràfols Casamada worked with these fragments of reality, of life, in a process of disfigurement, playing with connotations, plastic values and the visual richness of the possible different readings, in an attempt to fix the transience of reality. In 1950 he obtained a grant to travel to France, and settled in Paris until 1954. There he became acquainted with post-Cubist figurative painting, as well as with the work of Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Miró, among others. These influences were combined in his painting with that of American abstract expressionism, which was developing at the same time. When he finally returned to Barcelona he embarked on his own artistic path, with a style characterised by compositional elegance, based on orthogonal structures combined with an emotive and luminous chromaticism. After showing an interesting relationship, in the sixties and seventies, with neo-Dada and new realism, his work has focused on purely pictorial values: fields of colour in expressive harmony on which gestural charcoal lines stand out. He has received many prizes, such as the National Plastic Arts Award from the Ministry of Culture in 1980, the Creu de Sant Jordi in 1982 and the CEOE Prize for the Arts in 1991. In 1985 he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France, and is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. In 2003 the Generalitat awarded him the National Visual Arts Prize of Catalonia, and in 2009, just two months before his death, Grup 62 paid tribute to him at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. His work can be found in the most important museums around the world: the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Guggenheim and MOMA in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles, the Picasso Museum in France, the Georges Pompidou in Paris and the British Museum and Tate Gallery in London, among many others.
Lot 28
Richard Bazley (Animator) - Unknown Productions - a large series of hand drawn concept artwork from Walt Stanchfield life drawing classes at Disney. All approx. A2/A3 size with 50+ hand drawn sheets using charcoal, pastel, pencil and pen depicting various character forms, to include reclining nudes, cowboys, knights and animals.
Lot 16
VIRGILIO PASQUALE (Melfi, 1885-Sarno, 1953)."Tribute to the city of Barcelona", Barletta, Italy. Ca. 1900-1910.Pastel on paper.Signed and located in the lower left corner.Size: 89 x 123 cm; 92 x 125 cm (frame).The city of Barcelona shines with force in this brilliant composition ascribed to the modernist school. There are many iconographic elements that allow us to identify it as a tribute to the city of Barcelona, starting with the waterfall of the park of the Citadel, crowned with the chariot of the Aurora, represented in the lower part of the painting; the first Barça coat of arms that shines at the feet of a modernist lady, or the representation of the façade of the Sagrada Familia in the left part of the composition. Other elements, such as a bullfight in the ring of a bullring (possibly the Monumental), the interior of a cloister (most probably that of the Cathedral in the Gothic quarter) and one of the chimneys of Barcelona's old textile factories (which still today recall the industrial importance Barcelona enjoyed in the 20th century), corroborate the Barcelona identity of this painting. As a final touch, it is worth mentioning how all the elements mentioned above come together in a large setting with the Mediterranean Sea as a backdrop, with the Columbus monument fading into the background. The clearly modernist clothing of the bourgeois families in the scene, as well as the other elements that make up this particular composition, lead us to think that Virgilio Pasquale (an Italian who lived in Barletta) may have spent some time in Barcelona.
Lot 96
FREDERIC LLOVERAS HERRERA (Barcelona, 1912 - 1983)."Toilette", 1947.Oil on canvas.Signed and dated in the lower left corner.Size: 100 x 81 cm; 115 x 96 cm (frame).Frederic Lloveras was an outstanding painter, illustrator and watercolourist. Trained at the Cercle de Sant Lluc and the Sant Jordi School of Fine Arts, he began his career painting in oils. From 1936 to 1939 he devoted himself to drawing, to which he added colour, using watercolour above all, which became his speciality, although he also made frequent use of pastel. Today he is considered one of the best watercolourists of post-war Catalonia. In 1984, the Barcelona Salon de Mayo dedicated its edition to Lloveras as a posthumous tribute. His work can be found in the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona, the Museum of Watercolour in Llançà, the Julio Quesada Museum in Crevillent and the Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile, among others.
Lot 86
Isfahan carpet; Iran, 20th century.Wool.Size: 294 x 250 cm.Isfahan is a city in Iran known for being one of the most famous places for the production of Persian carpets. These carpets have often been mistakenly referred to as Polish, because of the established trade route from Persia to France, which passed through Poland. They are characterised by their high quality, made from silk or cotton and wool, which is finely cut. Their decoration is based on the use of traditional motifs, inspired by the architecture and tiles of the area, although aesthetic patterns of poetic inspiration also stand out. Nowadays, the colours used are of a soft, pastel nature.
Lot 418
Barlotti sugar bead jewellery, 1930’s 1940’s jewellery, a Batlotti 110cm colourful graduated bead necklace; Barlotti fringe necklace; two Barbola brooches, oval and rectangular 60x40mm; paste jewellery set with pastel coloured pressed glass flowers; large paste set floral spray brooch, 90mm; another in gilt metal with shades of blue paste; blue Forget-me-not necklace; Art Deco dress clips; pair of drop earrings.Qty: 21
Lot 35
MASAAKI HASEGAWA (Tokyo, Japan, 1987)."Virginity of colour", 2022.Pastel and oil on canvas.Attached certificate issued by the artist.Signed and dated on the back.Measurements: 90 x 90 cm.Linked to the world of sport, after winning the Inter High School Taekwondo Championship in Japan, Masaaki Hasegawa began his career as a professional MMA fighter in Japan, while studying finance and obtaining a degree in International Business. He then began his career as an investment strategist at Daiwa Capital Markets. However, he changed his life to devote himself fully to art, focusing especially on conceptual art. In his artistic work he founded Creatvida in 2014, which is a platform that hosts different creative profiles worldwide. In 2015 he published his first book "Yes, you are creative" and, in 2016, the second book, "New paradigm of creativity", in addition he also leads the project "Connect People Thru Art Beyond Borders" and is an advisor to the Contemporary Museum of Calligraphy in Moscow. His work has been exhibited at the Bauhaus Center in Tel-Aviv, Paper Pavilion in Madrid, Urvanity Art and We Crave, and he has intervened in Google installations. Masaaki Hasegawa has also created the largest calligraphy work in Europe on the roof of the Zapadores Museum in Madrid.
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