Lot 242: A painter's palette and brushes, musical instruments, books, including volumes of Plato and Tasso , a globe and two chests, on a table partly draped with a carpet, in an interior

Name: A painter's palette and brushes, musical instruments, books, including volumes of Plato and Tasso , a globe and two chests, on a table partly draped with a carpet, in an interior
Brand: Christie's
SKU: yjmjkjzwjr

Est: £40,000 GBP - £60,000 GBP

Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 09, 2008

Item Overview

Description

Circle of Bartolomeo Bettera (Bergamo 1639-c. 1688)
A painter's palette and brushes, musical instruments, books, including volumes of Plato and Tasso, a globe and two chests, on a table partly draped with a carpet, in an interior
oil on canvas
37½ x 57½ in. (95.3 x 146 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Bartolomeo Bettera

Exhibited

Dallas, The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, The Art that Broke the Looking Glass, 14 November-31 December 1961, as Bartolomeo Bettera.

Literature

M. Rosci, Baschenis, Bettera & Co., 1971, pp. 160-61, no. 164, illustrated, as Studio of Bettera.

Provenance

with Spark Galleries, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 January, 1987, lot 59, as Studio of Bartolomeo Bettera.
with Simon Dickinson, London.

Auction Details

Important Old Master & British Pictures Day Sale

Christie's

July 09, 2008, 10:30 AM WET

8 King Street, St. James's, London, LDN, SW1Y 6QT, UK

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