Moisés Yagües
Discover original artworks by the Spanish artist Moisés Yagües at the OA Fine Art galleries in Paris. On his canvases, painters a few millimetres tall set the masterpieces of art history back to work: they repaint Rothko, climb Matisse, assemble Calder.
The artworks
in the gallery
Tap an artwork to see it large, zoom into the paint, place it on your wall or discover its estimate.
The workshop
of masterpieces
Yagües does not quote art history: he puts it to work. A painting everyone recognises and, on it, a crew of painters a few millimetres tall, busy setting it back in progress. This is how a canvas is built.
- The motif A work everyone has already seen: a flat field of Matisse, a band of Rothko, Malevich's square. Recognition is immediate — that is the condition for what follows.
- The scale The figures measure a few millimetres. From afar, the canvas is an abstraction; up close, it becomes a scene. No reproduction conveys that shift.
- The work They paint with rollers, carry buckets, climb ladders, pass ropes to one another. The masterpiece is no longer a conclusion: it is in progress, and will need taking up again tomorrow.
- The line Nothing is left to chance: each figure is held in a few brushstrokes, the size of a fingernail. This is where the hand of the engraver he also is shows.
A canvas takes weeks, and sometimes holds more than a hundred figures. That explains the rarity — and why no two visitors ever see quite the same thing.
Already in collections
These canvases have joined collections. Moisés Yagües returns regularly to his masters: Rothko, Mondrian, Matisse, Malevich. Choose the ones that speak to you, and we will let you know as soon as a new canvas leaves the studio.
Humour,
and an engraver's hand
Moisés Yagües, born in 1972 in Murcia, lives and works in his native city, in south-eastern Spain. An engraver by training turned painter, he has invented a language recognisable at once: small busy figures, who take seriously what art had left finished.
Art history, put back to work
Rothko in Progress, Matisse's Assistants, Calder in Progress: the titles state the method. The modern icon becomes a workshop again, with its ladders, buckets and painters. Homage and mischief live in the same gesture.
From afar, up close
The figures measure a few millimetres. From afar, the canvas is an abstraction; up close, it becomes a scene. A single canvas takes weeks and sometimes holds more than a hundred figures.
The engraver before the painter
He first learned printmaking, and it shows: the crispness of the line, the economy of means, the ability to set down a figure in three brushstrokes at the scale of a fingernail.
An artist closely followed in Asia
Art Central Hong Kong, KIAF Seoul, Art021 Shanghai, Art Taipei, and also Art Karlsruhe, Estampa in Madrid and Context Miami. Grantee of the Joan Miró Foundation in Mallorca, of Casa Falconieri in Sardinia, of the Guanlan centre in China and of Kloster Bentlage in Germany.
Discover the estimate
A gallerist replies within one business day, with the estimate, the availability and the acquisition terms for each artwork.
Side by side on the same wall, hung with their centre at 4 ft 11 in, as in a gallery.
Presented in its wooden floater frame, chosen by the artist.
Slim black moulding, the canvas floating within. Quoted with the estimate.
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