Art & Photographs

Art & Photographs

Auction: 21 June, 2022, 7pm

1st Session: A Singular Gaze Ferran Artigas Collection
2nd Session: Josep Salvany, Photographs 1911-1926
3rd Session: Works and art documents

Viewing: 20 & 21 June 2022

Juan Naranjo Galería de Arte & Documentos will be holding an auction on 21 June at 7pm, divided into three sessions, featuring works and documents produced between the 19th century and the present day. A good number of the lots that constitutes the auction belong to two important figures linked to the artistic avant-garde in Spain: Joaquim Gomis and Eduardo Westerdahl and a good part of the photographs belong to Ferran Artigas, a collector of photography who started in the 1980s, a period in which photography was beginning to be institutionalised.


1st Session: A Singular Gaze Ferran Artigas Collection

Catalogue: Una mirada singular, colección Ferran Artigas


A Singular Gaze is made up of 49 lots by different photographers such as Tomás Monserrat, Ernest James Bellocq, Raoul Hausmann, Agustí Centelles, David Seymour, Nicolás Muller, Josep Sala, Mariano Zuzunaga, Antonio Tabernero, Francesc Català-Roca, Leopoldo Pomés, Bernard Plossu, Keiichi Tahara, Kineo Kuwabara , Isabel Muñoz , Max Pam, Ferdinando Scianna, Philippe Koudjina, Malick Sidibé, Tidiani Shitou, Youssouf Sogodogo, Alioune Bâ, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Cristóbal Hara, Ramón Masats, Fernando Herráez, Koldo Chamorro, Gabriel Cualladó, Elliott Erwitt, Jean Loup-Sief, Daido Moriyama, Joaquim Puigvert...

The collector Ferran Artigas, over more than four decades, has made an interesting photographic production as an "amateur" and this fact has been very present in his way of collecting, in which he has developed a personal and singular line. He began his collection at a seminal moment in photographic collecting. His case is a good example of how collecting can become something creative.

2nd Session: Josep Salvany, Photographs 1911-1926

Catalogue: Josep Salvany, fotografías 1911-1926


Josep Salvany developed an interesting and extensive photographic production. Part of his archive is kept at the Biblioteca de Catalunya, an institution that began the process of recovering his production and his figure, dedicating to him, in 1992, an exhibition and a catalogue entitled Josep Salvany i Blanch, fotografies, 1910-1926.

The archive on offer comprises more than 1900 photographs on glass plates, taken between 1911-1926 by Josep Salvany, including an important set of autochrome plates.


3rd Session: Works and art documents

Catalogue: Obras y documentos de arte

This is a sale of works and documents produced between the 19th century and the present day. A good number of lots belonged to Joaquim Gomis and Eduardo Westerdahl. The auction is composed by national and international artists, including: William Kilburn, Gaspar Sensi, Andreas Groll, José María Sert, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Sunyer, Joan Miró, Kurt Hielscher, Sham Shere, Enrique Aznar, Martín Chambi, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Óscar Domínguez, Valentine Hugo, Ramón Batlles, Antonio Gálvez, Constantino Arias, Francesc Català-Roca, Eudald Serra, Andreas Feinninger, Claudio Pérez, Álvaro Hoppe, Humberto Rivas, Jaume Plensa, Chema Madoz, Eugènia Balcells, Julia Spínola, Evru, Carmen Calvo, Kasper Kovitz, Hannah Collins,...