Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property of a Distinguished Collector
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October 14, 03:02 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Distinguished Collector
TADDEO DI BARTOLO
Siena 1362/3 (?) - after 1422
SAINTS CATHERINE OF ALEXANDRIA, LAWRENCE, DOMINIC, AND JULIAN
inscribed across the reverse of the panels: Unico......ma Altare di S. Pa[olo?] d’Orto / Che rest a Pa... p Superior[e?] o vdi....spedit[o?] / Taddeo Bartoli / Vedi Vasari / Io Cavre Lasinio
a set of four, all tempera and gold ground on panel
each: 10⅝ by 5½ in.; 27 by 14 cm.
(4)
Chiesa di San Paolo all'Orto, Pisa;
Carlo Lasinio (1759-1838), Pisa ;
From whom acquired by Dawson Turner, Esq., F.R.S., Great Yarmouth, 18 November 1825;
His sale, London, Christie's, 14 May 1852, lots 1-2, 2 gns each, to Mr. Anthony;
H. Clark, London, by 1931;
Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence;
From whom acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, New York, 1933;
Thence by bequest to the Denver Art Museum, 1953;
By whom sold ("Property from the Denver Art Museum, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds"), New York, Christie's, 29 January 1999, lot 61.
S. Symeonides, Taddeo di Bartolo, Siena 1965, pp. 204-205, reproduced plate 10b (as a good workshop assistant of Taddeo di Bartolo);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 420 (as possibly from the Grenoble polyptych of 1395);
J. Rowlands, "Review: Taddeo di Bartolo," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 110, no. 786, September 1968, p. 529;
Denver Museum of Art, Guide to the Collections, p. 27, cat. no. E-24.
B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North America Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, p. 194;
M. Chiarini, Tableaux italiens: catalogue raisonné de la collection de peinture italienne XIVe-XIXe siècle, Grenoble 1988, p. 104;
G.E. Solberg, Taddeo di Bartolo: His Life and Work, Ph.D. diss., New York 1991, pp. 98, 128, 375-377, 430, reproduced fig. 29;
D. Levi, "Carlo Lasinio, Curator, Collector, and Dealer," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 135, no. 1079, February 1993, pp. 140-142, and under notes 4 and 7;
G. Amato, "Alcuni chiarimenti sull'attività giovanile di Taddeo di Bartolo e il caso del polittico Casassidi Pisa", in Prospettiva, no. 134-135, April-July 2009, pp. 110, 112, 118, under note 51, reproduced figs. 14-17, 25;
G. Solberg, Taddeo di Bartolo, exhibition catalogue, Milan 2020, p. 289, reproduced in fig. R3.