Lot 24: ATTRIBUTED TO GIULIO BENSO

Est: $5,000 USD - $7,000 USDSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 27, 2010

Item Overview

Description

.RECTO.: A MONK TURNING TOWARDS THE LEFT, HIS ARMS RAISED;
.VERSO.: AN ANGEL ANNUNCIATE SEEN IN PROFILE

Dimensions

11 3/4 by 7 1/2 in; 299 by 193 mm

Artist or Maker

Giulio Benso

Medium

Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper (recto and verso);bears numbering and attribution in pencil, upper right: 5 / Palma il vecchio-

Provenance

Elie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Talleyrand;
by descent to his nephew, Manuel de Gonzalez de Andia, Duc de Dino,
his sale, Paris, Christie's, 26 June 2002, lot 6

Notes

The figure of a monk on the recto seems to be close to the eccentric style of Giulio Benso, which is more familiar in pen and ink than in chalk.

Auction Details

Old Master Drawings

Sotheby's

January 27, 2010, 10:00 AM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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