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Lot 55: Juan de Zurbarán (Llerena 1620-1649 Seville)

Est: £2,500,000 GBP - £3,500,000 GBPSold:
Christie'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 03, 2012

Item Overview

Description

Juan de Zurbarán (Llerena 1620-1649 Seville)
Apples in a wicker basket, an opened pomegranate on a silver plate and roses, irises and other flowers in a glass vase, on a stone ledge
oil on canvas
32 x 43 in. (81.3 x 109.2 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Barcelona, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Zurbarán, 26 March-31 May 1998, no. 25.

Literature

W.B. Jordan, An eye on nature: Spanish still-life paintings from Sánchez Cotán to Goya, New York, 1997, p. 107, fig. 13.4.
P. Cherry, 'Don Juan de Zurbarán, Sevillian Still-Life painter', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, October 1998, pp. 111-22, fig. 12.
P. Cherry, Arte y Naturaleza: el Bodegón Español en el Siglo de Oro, Madrid, 1999, p. 257, pl. 85.
A. Aterido Fernández, El Bodegón en la España del Siglo de Oro, Madrid, 2002, p. 41.
J.A. de Urbina, 'Velásquez y el mercado de la pintura española del siglo XVII', Velázquez (1599-1999); visiones y revisiones: actas de las Jornadas de Historia del arte, Córdoba, 22, 23 y 24 de abril de 1999, Córdoba, 2002, p. 83.
A. Baron, 'La côte des natures mortes espagnoles des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles', L'Estampille-L'Objet d'Art, no. 377, February 2003, p. 64.
E. Valdivieso, La Pintura barroca sevillana, Seville, 2003, pp. 69, 71 and 292, fig. 68.
M.M. Cuyàs, in Caravaggio y la pintura realista europea, Barcelona, 2005, p. 338.
R. Romero Asenjo, El bodegón español en el siglo XVII: desvelando su naturaleza oculta, Madrid, 2009, pp. 185-7, figs. 37-44.
O. Delenda, Francisco de Zurbarán 1598-1664, Madrid, 2010, II, pp. 284-85, no. JZ-19.

Provenance

Denys Sutton, London, and by descent to his heirs; their sale, Christie's, New York, 31 January 1997, lot 218 ($2,862,500 to the present owner).

Notes

PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Juan de Zurbarán (Llerena 1620-1649 Seville)
Apples in a wicker basket, an opened pomegranate on a silver plate and roses, irises and other flowers in a glass vase, on a stone ledge
oil on canvas
32 x 43 in. (81.3 x 109.2 cm.)

Auction Details

Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale

by
Christie's
July 03, 2012, 12:00 AM GMT

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