The day of collecting will address seven lectures on diverse subjects

The seventh  Art Market, Collecting and Museums Day, organized by the Sitges Heritage Consortium and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​will be held at the Palau de Maricel on Friday October 26 with a program that will address different studies that go from Charles Deering to collecting bookbindings, going through the Sorigué collections and the La Fontana Foundation, the artistic trade between Barcelona and Madrid in the mid-nineteenth century and the profiles of the collectors Emili Cabot Rovira, Maria Regordosa and Oleguer Junyent.

The sessions are coordinated by Bonaventura Bassegoda (UAB) and Ignasi Domènech (head of the Museum Collections of Sitges) and will be attended by renowned speakers as Fernando Alcolea, Gemma Avinyó, Clara Beltran, Maria Antònia Casanovas, Jordi de Nadal, Vinyet Panyella and Aitor Quiney.

The Art Market, Collecting and Museums  is aimed at museologists, collectors, gallery owners, scholars and other professionals related to the world of art, as well as students from these disciplines. The registration is free and can be formalized from September through the website of Museums of Sitges. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.

7th DAY ART MARKET, COLLECTING AND MUSEUMS

Saló d’Or of Palau de Maricel

October 26, 2018

Organizers. Sitges Heritage Consortium and the Autonomous University of Barcelona

Scientific Coordination: Bonaventura Bassegoda and Ignasi Domènech

Registrations: Free (opening soon)

SPEAKERS

Fernando Alcolea. The artistic trade between Barcelona and Madrid in the mid-nineteenth century

Gemma Avinyó: Motivation, sense and perspectives of the Sorigué collection

Clara Beltran: Maria Regordosa and Oleguer Junyent: friendship and collecting passion

Maria Antònia Casanovas: La Fontana Foundation: instruments of the world and Spanish ceramics

Jordi de Nadal: Emili Cabot Rovira (1854-1924): beyond the old glass collection

Vinyet Panyella: Charles Deering and modern art collecting

Aitor Quiney: The collection of art bindings in Catalonia

PROGRAM

9.30 am Welcome and presentation of the volume of the 6th 2017 Day.

10 h Fernando Alcolea: The artistic trade between Barcelona and Madrid in the mid-nineteenth century.

10.30 Clara Beltran: María Regordosa and Oleguer Junyent: friendship and collecting passion   

11 am Aitor Quiney: Collecting art bindings in Catalonia.

11.30 Break.

12.15 Maria Antònia Casanovas: La Fontana Foundation, world instruments and Spanish ceramics .

12.45 Vinyet Panyella: Charles Deering and modern art collecting.

13.15 h Debate.

14 Lunch break.

16.15 Jordi de Nadal: Emili Cabot Rovira (1854-1924): beyond the old glass collection.

16.45 Gemma Avinyó: Motivation, sense and perspectives of the Sorigué collection.

5:15 p.m. closing