Attention! Start session for bidding for this lot.
Florence Technique: Acrylic on wood Dimensions: 40 x 60 cm Year: 2025 Style: Contemporary Urban In Florence, Espigares delves into the heart of a city where history and light coexist in every stone. The scene unfolds along a narrow cobblestone street that leads the eye toward architecture that seems to emerge from glazes, shadows, and golden reflections. Balconies, arches, and awnings overlap in a vibrant composition, where depth is not built from precise detail, but from the emotion of the brushstroke. The artist's new technique is manifested here with a fragmented, almost eroded brushstroke that reveals layers of time beneath the painted surface. The intersecting lines, transparencies, and contrasts of light create an immersive atmosphere, where the city is presented not as a static stage set, but as a living organism, charged with memory and movement. In this Artwork, a clear dialogue with the great masters of urban and architectural painting is evident. The street structure and the drama of the light evoke Canaletto's legacy, reinterpreted from a more emotional, contemporary perspective. The diffused atmosphere and chromatic vibrancy recall Turner, while the gestural energy connects with the current urbanism of contemporary creators who explore the city through brushstrokes and gestures. However, Espigares maintains his own identity, where architecture is transformed into an inner landscape. The artist's beginnings lie in an early relationship with drawing and materials. His first contact with a brush took place on a ceramic vessel at the Artworkshop of sculptor and painter Miguel Ruiz in Jun (Granada), an experience that forever marked his understanding of the surface as a living territory. Self-taught, he has built a solid career through exhibitions, commissions throughout Europe, and various awards, consolidating a personal language where the urban landscape is the absolute protagonist. In Florence, the city doesn't impress with its monumental architecture, but with its atmosphere. The artArtwork doesn't depict a place, it suggests it. It's a slow stroll among shadows and reflections, where each brushstroke leaves a trace of time, of human presence, and of memory. The artArtwork is delivered perfectly packaged, with a certificate of authenticity, guaranteeing fast and secure shipping.
Santiago Estrany. Watercolor on paper "Sitges". Hand signed. 50x65cm. Geometrism.
Oil on canvas by David Callau, entitled the child 2004 Collective Exhibition “Fantasmagòrica”. Forte Santgallo. Rome. Measurements 130 x 160 cm (prize of the exhibition)
Drawing on paper by Antonio de Felipe, illustration for an article about the film Interview with the Vampire, measures 64x82, the drawing is delivered with the magazine where it was reproduced Pop Artist
Original drawing by Alber Rafols Casamada (1923-2009) - 1988 Workshop Album
Drawing measurements 31x31 cm with frame 64x64 cm
With auction and gallery stamps
Alberto Rafols-Casamada (Barcelona, 1923 – 2009), was a poet and painter. Rafols-Casamada began his studies in architecture but abandoned them to dedicate himself fully to the visual arts, thanks to the support of his father, Albert Ràfols i Cullerés. The painter was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts by the Ministry of Culture in 1980, the National Prize for Visual Arts of Catalonia in 2003 and was an honorary academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.
Drawing by the sculptor Joan Rebull, signed and dated, drawing dimensions 20x26 cm. Acquired at the antique fair organised by the city council of Reus, his hometown, the certificate is attached.
SubastaReal is a portal of the company Open Auctions S.L.
CIF: B66516378
Travessera de les Corts, 354 2-4
08029, Barcelona
902014040
info@subastareal.es
Subscribe to our newsletter and get all the news.
