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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 7, 2021 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 5 | $****** - ****** | Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in black, his right hand resting on a book |
paintings
100 x 82.9 cm (39.38 x 32.63 in)
oil on canvas
(possibly) Ritter von Schoeller, Vienna.
Julius and Camilla Priester, Vienna, by 1924, from whom confiscated by the Gestapo, 11 February 1944.
Bernhard Wittke, Vienna.
with Galerie Sanct Lukas, Vienna, by whom sold to the following,
with Frederick Mont, New York, 1952.
with M. Knoedler & Co, New York (jointly owned with Frederick Mont and Pinakos Inc), by March 1953.
Private collection, Italy, by 1970s, from whom purchased in 2010 by a London dealer.
Restituted to the heirs of Julius and Camilla Priester, 2015.
Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Stora Spanska Mä stare , 12 December 1959-13 March 1960, no. 52.
Heraklion, Heraklion Chamber of Commerce, El Greco of Crete. Exhibition on the occasion of the 450 th anniversary of his birth , 1 September-10 October 1990, no. 6.
Treviso, Casa dei Carraresi, El Greco in Italia, Metamorfosi di un genio , 23 October 2015-1 May 2016, no. 48.
Paris, Grand Palais, Greco , 16 October 2019-10 February 2020, no. 20.
G. Fiocco, Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia Dell'Arte , Venice, 1947, pp. 217-219.
M.S. Soria, ‘Greco’s Italian Period’, Arte Veneta , VIII, 1954, pp. 217-219, no. 37, fig. 233.
H. Wethey, El Greco and His School , Princeton, 1962, II, p. 202-203, no. X-170.
J. Camón Aznar, Domenico Greco , Madrid, 1970, p. 150, fig. 91.
L. Puppi, El Greco in Italia: Metamorfosi di un genio , Treviso, 2015, p. 113.
K. Christiansen, ‘Greco en Italie’, in the exhibition catalogue, Greco, Paris, 2019, p. 32.
DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in black, his right hand resting on a book
inscribed and dated ‘NASCITUR SESTO CALEND. SEPTEB/ANNO DNI M.D. XXIII. / DEPINGITUR VERO II DE IUN. M.D. LXX’ (centre left)
oil on canvas
39 3⁄8 x 32 5⁄8 in. (100 x 82.8 cm.)
