Daniel Sabater Y Salabert Spanish Lady With Mantilla And Red Carnation Portrait Oil 1929 European Art 1929
sitges, Spain
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Style
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Description
Spanish Lady with Mantilla and Red Carnation Portrait Oil 1929
Artist: Daniel Sabater Salabert (Valencia, 1888 – Barcelona, 1951)
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 65 x 54 cm (25.6 x 21.3 in)
Frame: 79 x 68 cm (31.1 x 26.8 in)
Signature: Signed and inscribed “María de Castro – D. Sabater – 1929” lower left
Date: 1929
Condition: Good overall condition consistent with age. Fine craquelure and minor wear. Antique gilt frame with age-related wear and small losses
DESCRIPTION
There are portraits… and then there are presences.
This striking 1929 oil painting depicts a Spanish lady identified as María de Castro, wrapped in a deep black mantilla and crowned with a vivid red carnation — a visual code of elegance, identity, and quiet authority.
Sabater does something clever here: he lets the darkness speak. The mantilla is not just clothing, it’s atmosphere. Built with loose, almost impressionistic brushwork, it dissolves into shadow while the face emerges like a memory you’re not quite ready to forget.
The result is hypnotic.
The delicately modeled face, the soft blush tones, the subtle smile that never fully reveals its intentions… and then the hand — poised, refined, almost theatrical — anchoring the composition with aristocratic calm.
And here’s the detail collectors love:
This is not a generic regional type. It is a named sitter, dated, and inscribed. A real woman, frozen in 1929, carrying her identity across a century. That shifts the work from decorative to narrative.
Painted during Sabater’s mature period between Spain and Paris, the piece blends Mediterranean tradition with a more modern, atmospheric handling of paint, giving it both historical weight and strong decorative appeal.
Placed in an interior, this doesn’t hang.
It watches.
ARTIST BIO
Daniel Sabater Salabert (Valencia, 1888 – Barcelona, 1951) was a Spanish painter with an international career spanning Europe and the Americas.
He began working in decorative arts and fan painting before moving to Madrid in 1904, where he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1910. By 1912 he had settled in Paris, producing religious portraits for international missions.
During World War I he returned to Spain, later establishing himself in Barcelona with a successful portrait practice. His work evolved toward expressive and symbolic themes, earning him the nickname “the painter of witches” for his dramatic and visionary compositions.
His international recognition expanded in the Americas, with works held in institutions such as the Hispanic Society of America in New York and collections across Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and Uruguay.
After returning to Spain in the 1920s, he developed a mature style combining technical refinement with emotional depth, as seen in this 1929 portrait.
ARTISTIC CONTEXT / INSPIRATION
Joaquín Sorolla
Ignacio Pinazo
Cecilio Pla
John Singer Sargent
Giovanni Boldini
Spanish painting
Valencian school
female portrait
mantilla portrait
Spanish lady
Mediterranean art
oil on panel
1929 painting
European art
figurative painting
traditional costume
red carnation
portrait art
collector piece
interior statement art
Additional dimensions information:
65 x 54 cm (25.6 x 21.3 in) Frame: 79 x 68 cm (31.1 x 26.8 in)
Wear Condition
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