Not only technology living man. To sample a button: Antonio Lopez Garcia

This is my personal blog, and even though it will be marked by new technologies and the Internet, I can not ignore my other passion, art, particularly contemporary painting and avant-garde Spanish.

Leo Monica Kreibohm in ArteSpain that comes to auction today a unique piece, which will mark a turning point in the painting in Spain. This is the table "Madrid, from Torres Blancas" (150 × 244cm approx) table created over 6 years, which the auction room Christies, with an estimated price of output without precedent for a living artist Spanish: between 3,000,000 $ And $ 4,000,000

As they know, but I feel that will be sold Crisis, what crisis?. I just want to show here from a desire to stay in Spain, that the government intervene in the auction and what wins for the Reina Sofia Museum or the MACBA, which could earmark a preferred location for a piece like this.

Antonio Lopez is not only one of the great painters realistic but personally I think it will go down in history of the great painters and will be studied for centuries alongside other great contemporary Spanish artist, Lucian Freud, and will be remembered as the great painters of realistic the time.

I always liked the works of Antonio, in fact I have a small piece I bought at an auction in Germany for years. I remember a few days to do so, I received the touch of his daughter Mary, and one of those accidents of fate a few days at home of Antonio, with him having breakfast in his kitchen near where I lived then in The Pinar Chamartin in Madrid. It is incredible to see the extent to which a person can be "normal" and very flat, and the extent to which live isolated from the major figures in the work of the day to day, a guy who is one of the great myths of the history of painting in Spain and will be remembered for his work in the coming centuries: something that only 2-3 Spanish artists living may make.

I remember that in the latest edition of the congress of Forum Domains, which I had the pleasure of participating with Carlos Blanco and Marcos Sainz in a panel discussion, asked me if I had 10 Million Euros if spent on generic domains. This morning I changed my mind response, if any, I would love to be able to buy Antonio with some of that money a piece like this, and what for many can be a snobbery and be frowned upon, (such as paying high numbers for a artwork), I frankly think that in this case is not only a good investment, but also would enjoy far have in front of me, in my house every day a book like this.

Update: It has sold 1.74 million Euros, with Antonio Lopez enshrining such as the Spanish painter contributed more in life.

Tags: Antonio Lopez, Art, Dominos, Painting Auctions