Brueghel and the Sèvres’s ceramics reigns in Spain in January

15 Jul Brueghel and the Sèvres’s ceramics reigns in Spain in January

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The January auctions, although the great majority didn’t present greateful catalogs, had obtain excellent results. Durán presented his auction on January 25, at 6:00 p.m. In the catalog, hidden to the less savvy eyes, there was a drawing in ink with three architecture studios (27.5 x 16.5 cm), signed by Antonio del Castillo. Already at the beginning of the auction the table presented an offer of € 1,500, finally dying to a telephone bidder for € 3,250. As it was supposed, the piece was not going to rise with a higher price, mainly because in Spain a drawing of these characteristics isn’t valued enough.

DEL CASTILLO, ANTONIO. Tres estudios de arquitectura. 1662. Dibujo a tinta. Precio de remate: 3.250€ (Durán)

Then, the 19th century painting sales stand out, among which we see Nocturnal in Trasimeno Lake (O / L, 100 x 100 cm), signed by Salvador Sánchez Barbudo and present in our previous article. It was settled at € 14,000, € 1,000 less than what was ordered by the canvas in November. Also, although in the twentieth century, we see Anguille (39.8 x 55 cm), a mixed technique on paper by Miquel Barceló, which had appeared so often in Duran starting at € 17,000 up to what was requested on this occasion, € 6,000, in which it was finally awarded.

Leaving the pictorial art, we see how the lot that was presented as the highlight of the auction, lot 502, was a table clock with base flanked by two seated puttis, with machinery Paris and two decorative amphoras in Sèvres porcelain, which it left for € 7,000 and ended up ditching € 15,000. It was not the only batch: online, through live-bidding, a large 1900 French mirror of carved, stuccoed and gilded wood was sold, which, although it came out at € 2,500, was settled at € 8,500. As for the decorative art in which we find ourselves, we also see a couple of pieces in carved coral, which rose respectively from € 3,000 to € 5,000 and from € 1,200 to € 2,750. As for African tribal art, we see the prominent lot, the Kifwebe balaume Songye mask, sold for € 3,750 that was asked for the exit.

As for Ansorena, we saw a spectacular sale of a Joos de Momper the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with characters (93 x 12o cm): € 125,000 that defended the table by a previous bid. It is not strange that we see this, since at the end of the day he carried with him a letter from the year 2010 of Justus Muller Hofstede as confirmation of the authorship. Then we also see a great copper from Jan Brueghel the Younger, Calvary (14.5 x 20 cm), which was awarded € 22,000 from the € 14,000 output.

As for the most recent pictorial section, we saw the work of Francisco Pradilla, with Dancer on the day of her debut (O / L, 93 x 65 cm, 1918). It was sold for € 65,000, € 5,000 higher than the last time it was auctioned, also in Ansorena. Afterwards, José Benlliure and his Las Brujas (O / L, 169 x 260 cm), which was settled at € 44,000 from € 40,000. As we already mentioned, on the obverse we see Earth, a fragment at least of the same work, from 1881. The original canvas was reused to paint on top, being originally 400 x 600 cm.