Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 302. Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund

Workshop of Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli

Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund

Workshop of Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli

Florence 1445 - 1510

Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria


tempera on panel

panel: 28 ½ by 19 ⅜ in.; 72.4 by 49.2 cm

framed: 44 by 34 ¾ in.; 111.8 by 88.3 cm

Baron Ferdinand von Quast (1850-1939), Schloss Radensleben, Ruppin, by 1914;

With Wildenstein, by January 1952;

With Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, by March 1957;

John and Johanna Bass, New York, by 1962;

By whom bequeathed to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in 1968 (inv. no. 1968.100).

P. Eichholz, W. Spak, and F. Solger, Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Brandenburg, vol. I, pt. III, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Ruppin, Berlin 1914, p. 197, reproduced pl. 183 (as Botticelli);

F. Zeri and B.B. Frederickson, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, pp. 34, 595 (as Workshop of Botticelli);

The John and Johanna Bass Collection at Miami Beach, Florida, Miami 1973, p. 27, cat. no. 100 (as Botticelli);

R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli, London 1978, vol. II, p. 85, cat. no. B76(b), reproduced (as Workshop of Botticelli);

R. De Angelis, Tout Botticelli, La peinture, Milan and Paris 1982, p. 72, cat. no. 127 B, reproduced (as Workshop of Botticelli);

P. L. Roberts, in Paintings and Textiles of the Bass Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection, M. Russell (ed.), Miami Beach 1990, p. 18, reproduced (as Workshop of Botticelli);

G. Cornini, in Botticelli and Filippino: Passion and Grace in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painting, exhibition catalogue, D. Arasse, P. De Vecchi, and J.K. Nelson (eds.), Milan 2004, p. 208 (as Workshop of Botticelli);

P.L. Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, The South, Athens, Georgia 2009, vol. II, p. 508, reproduced (as Workshop of Botticelli);

C. Daly, in Botticelli: Artiste & Designer, exhibition catalogue, A. Debenedetti and P. Curie (eds.), Paris 2021, pp. 74 note 6, 75 (as an Assistant in Botticelli’s Workshop, but not the Master of the Gothic Buildings).

Miami, Bass Museum of Art, The Sacred and Sublime: Renaissance and Baroque, 4 December 2008 - 16 April 2009;

Miami, Bass Museum of Art, An Invitation to LOOK, 1 April - 3 July 2011;

Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Portrait of a Young Man | Laurent Grasso, 29 October 2011 - 12 February 2012.