As MoMA’s retrospective of Uruguayan-Catalan artist Joaquín Torres-García brings attention to Uruguayan art, the country’s foremost auction house, Castells, presents a series of sales highlighting contemporaries of Torres-García, a highly influential early 20th-century painter, including Francisco Matto, whose sculpture Pareja, 1979, hit the block November 25. “It is a heterogeneous auction,” says Juan Castells, a partner and director of the house, regarding a sale of around 120 lots on December 16. “Works from different eras of our national art history are included—artists from the early 20th century; the Bellas Artes period, which produced the most important Uruguayan landscapes; and modern and contemporary artists as well.”On January 14 and 15, 2016, the house presents a modern and contemporary sale with artists from Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and Argentina, highlighted with works by María Freire and José Pedro Costigliolo, pioneers of geometric art in Uruguay.
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