The 21st of December sale began well with the first four lots fetching prices above their starting price. Specially significant was the oil on canvas attributed to the seventeenth century Andalucian school entitled Nativiety, coincidence or not, which went from a mere 2.000 euros to an impressive 6.500 euros. Meanwhile the Virgin with angels went once more unbid for and without an owner and the portrait Pepita in Asturias by Cecilio Pla was sold for its starting price of 35.000 euros.  

The truth is portraiture captured the hearts of bidders this December with another example, in this case a portrait of Mr. Hunlitz by Sorolla, going under the hammer for its starting price of 30.000 euros. The balanced composition of a woman in profile by the mostly unknown Cuban artist Armando Menocal junped from a starting price set in 2.000 euros to 3.200 euros. The models in the Studio by Francisco Iturrino was sold for its starting price of 30.000 euros, while the great bets of this month's sale went unsold such as Landscape with the Alhambra by Joaquín Mir, Madona by Isidro Nonell or Girl with a handkerchief by Maria Blanchard. 

The greatest hammer price of the day went to no other than Daniel Vázquez Díaz for his work El Odilillo, an oil on canvas with life-size figures already exhibited on several occasions in Spain and in Europe. But not everything was painting in the sale, and other lots managed to compensate some of the sale's losses. This is the case of the wrist watch Patek Philippe reference 130 made in yellow gold 18 K, which started at 12.000 euros and was auctioned off for 18.000 euros, or the sculpture of the Child Jesus of the Passion, which doubled its starting price and was ultimately solf for the very affordable sum of 1.200 euros. Specially noticeable was the absence of important bids for jewllery. Alfonso Carbajo Agrasar 

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