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The Pseudo-Guardi
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- The Pseudo-Guardi
- A pair of still lifes of roses, amenones, tulips and other flowers in bronze urns, resting on stone ledges
- a pair, both oil on canvas, oval
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 1 November 2006, lot 150 (as attributed to the Pseudo-Guardi).
Catalogue Note
The present pair are stylistically close to a group of floral still lifes attributed by Antonio Morassi, and later by Giuseppe Pilo, to Francesco Guardi.1 Although flowers feature prominently in a number of Guardi's figure paintings, concrete records of his still life production remain obscure. The name Pseudo-Guardi, first used by Luigi Salerno, has therefore been more recently employed to designate the as yet unidentified author or authors of this group, working in the orbit of Guardi.2 Alternative attributions have been suggested, including Francesco Duramano and Carlo Henrici.3
1. A. Morassi, Guardi, I dipinti, Venice 1973, vol. I, pp. 499-500, vol. II, figures 911-919, and G. Pilo, Francesco Guardi, I paliotti, Milan 1983.
2. L. Salerno, La natura morta in Italia, Rome 1984, pp. 314-15.
3. For a recent discussion on the subject, see G. Bocchi and U. Bocchi, Naturaliter, Florence 1998, pp. 466-76.