Dario De Regoyos Y Valdes

Darío de Regoyos (Spanish, 1857-1913) Portrait of Emma Bogaerts oil on panel 32 x 23.5cm (12 5/8 x 9 1/4in). PROVENANCE: Given by the artist to the Bogaert family with whom he lived whilst in Belgium Thence by descent to the present owner Private collection, Belgium EXHIBITED: Brussels, Europalia 85 España, Dario de Regoyos,Un Espagnol en Belique 1985, no. 14. Darío de Regoyos was born in Ribadesella, Asturias, 1857. He studied at the San Fernando Royal Academy in 1878, where he was a student of Carlos de Haes and entered the École Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels the following year. Regoyos' painting style evolved from naturalism to the pre-symbolism of his 'La España negra' series. In later years his work developed impressionistic tendencies and a move towards Pointillism.

Lot Description Dario de Regoyos (Spanish, 1857-1913) Fireworks signed 'Regoyos' (lower left) oil on panel 9¾ x 13½ in. (25 x 34 cm) Painted in 1908. Provenance Vinda de Regoyos, 1919. with Biosca Galeria de Arte, Madrid. Private collection. Pre-Lot Text PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION Exhibited Paris, XXII Salon des Artistes Indépendents, 1906, no. 4236, as Feux de Bengale. Brussels, XXI salon de la Libre Esthétique, as Feux de Bengale. Paris, Galerie Choiseul, Exposition Dario de Regoyos, no. 22, as Feux de Bengale. Bilbao, la exposición Internacional de Pintura y Escultura, 1919, no. 61, as Los Fuegos artificiales. Barcelona, Centro Cultural, Exposición Antológica: Dario de Regoyos, 26 September - 9 November 1986, no. 110 (this exhibition also travelled to Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones, 21 November 1986 - 12 January 1987). San Sebastián, Fundación Kuxta, Darío de Regoyos y el país Vasco, July - September 1994. View Lot Notes › This painting is inscribed and authenticated on the reverse by Pilar Regoyos,('Este cuadro fue pintado el año 1908 por... Pilar Regoyos 17 de Marzo 83') and was authenticated by Juan San Nicolas Santamaria in 1989.

Dario de Regoyos y Valdés (Spanish, 1857-1913) El Gobelas signed 'Regoyos' (lower right) oil on canvas 19¾ x 24 in. (50 x 61 cm.) Pre-Lot Text The Property of a Private European Collection Exhibited Bilbao, VI Exposición de Arte Moderno, Salones de la SociedadFilarmónica, 20 October-15 November 1910, no. 83. Bilbao, Regoyos en el salón Del Claux, April 1911, no. 6. Barcelona, Dario de Regoyos, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, 26September-9 November 1986. Madrid, Dario de Regoyos, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, 21 November- 12 January 1986-7. Lot Notes Dario de Regoyos was introduced to drawing by his father, adistinguished architect and town planner who hoped that his sonwould also become an architect. Regoyos, however, favoured paintingand enrolled at the Escuela de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes inMadrid. Here he studied under the landscape painter Carlos de Haes.In 1881 he completed the first of many European journeys,travelling to France, the Netherlands and Belgian, which he laterregarded as his second home. Regoyos greatly admired Belgian art and became a founding member ofdel Circulo de Los XX whose fellow members included Théo vanRysselberghe, Jan Portaels, Alfred Stevens and his brother Agapit.James Abbott McNeil Whistler was also closely associated with thegroup when in 1884 he was invited to exhibit with them. Their workwhich often experimented with the pointillist technique wasincreasingly admired and is balanced by a sence of lyricism andpoetic observation, all qualities that Regoyos was keen toemploy. In 1909 he returned to Spain and moved to Las Arenas in Bilbao,from there he explored, painting the locality. In 1910 he visitedPlencia, Gorlitz and Barrika where the source of the river Gobelasis found, here he painted the present work, adopting anImpressionist style, sucessfully incorporating the pointillisttechnique, using dots of pure colour in the blues of the sky andthe ochres and greens of the land and trees.

DARÍO DE REGOYOS SPANISH, 1857 - 1913 ORANGERS, VALENCIA 12,000—18,000 GBP 20 by 29.5cm., 8 by 11½in. signed D de Regoyos lower right; titled Orangers / Valencia onthe reverse oil on board We are grateful to Juan San Nicolás for his assistance incataloguing this work. Painted in January 1893, the present work was painted duringRegoyos' only visit to Valencia, when he accompanied the Belgianartist Eugène Boch, brother of Anna Boch. Anna and Regoyos werefellow members of the Brussels avant-garde exhibiting body LesXX.

LOT 87 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION DARÍO DE REGOYOS SPANISH, 1857 - 1913 RENTERÍA Y LAS PEÑAS DE AYA (RENTERÍA AND THE MOUNTAINS OF AYA) 40,000—60,000 GBP measurements 40 by 49.5cm., 15¾ by 19½in. Description signed Regoyos lower left oil on panel PROVENANCE Acquired by the family of the present owner circa 1974 EXHIBITED Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Darío de Regoyos, 1857-1913, Alberto Corral & Juan San Nicolás, 1986-87, no. 56 CATALOGUE NOTE Depicting the rooftops of Rentería nestled beneath the snowy peaks of the Basque mountains, the present work, painted circa 1890, epitomises de Regoyos's inimitable style of plenairismo.