Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Lorenzo di Bicci

Madonna and Child in Glory

Lot Closed

January 30, 04:10 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Lorenzo di Bicci

Documented in Florence 1370 - 1427

Madonna and Child in Glory


tempera on panel, gold ground, with an arched top

panel: 23 by 14 1/4 in.; 58.5 by 36.3 cm.

framed: 40 by 24 1/4 in.; 101.6 by 61.6 cm.

Count Giuseppe Napoleone Primoli, Palazzo Primoli, Rome;
Godfrey Locker-Lampson, London, by 1938;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 30 January 1948, lot 155 (as 'Giovanni da Milano', 220 gns. to Canterbury);
With Wildenstein, 1948-1950 (according to Berenson archive);
Dr. Alfred Scharf, until 1954;
With Wildenstein, New York;
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's; 25 January 2012, lot 26;
There acquired.  
G. L. Lampson, A Few Italian Pictures Collected by Godfrey Locker-Lampson, n.d. [c. 1938], pp. 18-19, no. VI (as Giovanni da Milano);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, I, p. 162 (as Niccolò di Tommaso');
M. Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento: 1370-1400, Florence 1975, pp. 56, 336, reproduced plate 58;
R. Fremantle, Florentine Gothic Painters, from Giotto to Masaccio, London 1975, p. 412, no. 840;
D. Sutton, 'Robert Langton Douglas, Part IV,' in Apollo, CX, no. 209, July 1979, pp. 8, 12, reproduced fig. 20;
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Supplement: A Legacy of Attributions, New York 1981, pp. 41, 99, reproduced fig. 79; 
M.S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting: Part I, Catalogue Raisonné of All Punch Shapes, Prague 1998, p. 506.