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The Agony in the Garden by El Greco

El Greco

The Agony in the Garden

Oil on canvas
75 x 45.1 cm (29.53 x 17.76 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (09 Jun 2010)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Jun 9, 2010
Christie'sNew YorkOld Masters & 19th Century Art Including Select Works From the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries256
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The Agony in the Garden
Jan 26, 2005
Christie'sNew YorkImportant Old Master Paintings - Part II311
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The Agony in the Garden
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

75 x 45.1 cm (29.53 x 17.76 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

with signature 'doménikos theotokópoli' (lower right)

Provenance

Dr. Gómez, Madrid. with Knoedler, New York, 1915. with Kunsthandels, Lucerne. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 26 January 2005, lot 311, as 'Studio of El Greco' ($262,400).

Exhibited

Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Gli antichi pittori spagnoli della collezione Contini-Bonacossi, May-July 1930, no. 38, as 'El Greco'. Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Domenico Theotocopuli, El Greco, 1937, no. 47, as 'El Greco'.

Literature

A.L. Mayer, Dominico Theotocopuli El Greco, Munich, 1926, p. 11, no. 58, fig. 58, as 'El Greco'. A.L. Mayer, 'Unbekannte Werke des Greco', Pantheon, April 1930, p. 184, as 'El Greco'. M. Legendre and A. Hartmann, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco, Paris, 1937, no. 173, as 'El Greco'. J. Camón Aznar, Domenico Greco, Madrid, 1950, pp. 810, 1362, fig. 625, as 'El Greco'. H.E. Wethey, El Greco and his School, Princeton, 1962, II, pp. 168-169, no. x-15, as 'School of El Greco'. G. Manzini, L'opera completa del Greco, Milan, 1969, p. 120, no. 153e, as 'accepted by El Greco by the majority of scholars but by Wethey as a poor workshop copy'.