Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Property of a Trust

Willem Claesz. Heda

A banquet piece with an overturned tazza and oysters

Auction Closed

January 28, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Trust

Willem Claesz. Heda

Haarlem circa 1596 - 1680

A banquet piece with an overturned tazza and oysters


signed and dated on the knife lower right: Heda 1635

oil on panel

23 ½ by 31 ½ in.; 59.7 by 80 cm.

Jean Dollfus, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 20-21 May 1912, lot 51, to Schnell;

Acquired from the Dollfus Family by a private Swiss collector;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 10 January 1991, lot 66;

There acquired by Richard Green (for $1,430,000);

From whom acquired.

N.R.A. Vroom, De schilders van het monochrome banketjeAmsterdam 1945, cat. no. 201;
N.R.A. Vroom, A Modest Message, Schiedam 1980, vol. II, p. 77, cat. no. 375 (as dated 1649).