ABOUT US
We are a club of collectors and friends of art, and we offer our members and clients original visual art by contemporary artists, fine arts photographs, and illustrated books for the collector.
Círculo del Arte is located in the heart of Barcelona’s Old Town, very close to the Picasso Museum and the Church of Santa María del Mar. We are a club of collectors and friends of art, and we offer our members and clients original visual art by contemporary artists, fine arts photographs, and illustrated books for the collector.
The club was born in Barcelona in 1994 on the initiative of a group of artists, publishers, and gallerists of international renown. The main aim is to make available original visual artworks by great creators and to promote the collecting of high-quality prints of different types. Among the original group were painters such as Antonio Saura and Eduardo Arroyo, art historian and ex-director of the Prado Francisco Calvo Serraller, the gallerist and publisher Roland Haenssel of Stuttgart, and publisher Hans Meinke, the current director of Círculo del Arte.
Our new and effective art distribution system is based on:
- careful quarterly selection of high-quality artworks published by the Club and by other highly successful artistic entities of renown;
- highly cost-effective advantages for the buying public, with special discounts for members, exclusive offers and payment plans;
- an attractive free quarterly magazine containing information on works and artists as well as news about the club and the art world;
- gifts for bringing in new members;
- prizes for long-term membership and incentives for dynamic participation by members (points and dividends for art, competitions, and lotteries);
- a framing and delivery service for messenger-based home delivery;
- specialized, personal consultations.
The Club’s current collection is comprised of works by highly known international artists such as Chillida, Tàpies, Miró, Dalí, Beuys, Antonio Saura, Carlos Saura, Günter Grass, Rafael Canogar, Javier Mariscal, José Hernández, Rafael Alberti, Valerio Adami and many others.
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Círculo del Arte also has a spacious, well-appointed exhibition room and shop in its Barcelona headquarters in the Born neighbourhood. Work by great artists is regularly shown here, along with cultural events. Visual art and art books are on sale, and select gifts of design and artisan works are given.
Círculo del Arte conserves in its permanent collections three complete series of the historical engravings of Goya, various photographic cycles by Carlos Saura, and different collections of emblematic engravings by Tàpies, Dalí and other European and North American artists of the highest standing. The collections are regularly requested by other museum and cultural institutions for temporary exhibitions in Spain and in other countries.
Members and friends of the Círculo del Arte reside mainly in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. The launching of this web page has seen the number of followers in the European countries and in the United States continue to grow.
Círculo del Arte
Princesa, 52 - 08003 Barcelona
Tlf: 932 68 88 20
Fax: 933 19 26 51
info@circulodelarte.com
Schedule:
Monday to Friday: 10 - 19h
Saturday: 10 - 14h, 16 - 20h
During August: Saturday closed
