Koller Auktionen - Lot 3007* A192 Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens - vendredi 19 juin 2020, 14h00 BICCI DI LORENZO (1373 Florence 1452) The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine. Circa 1445–50. Tempera and gold ground on panel. 165 × 98 cm. Provenance: - John Temple Leader (1810–1903), Castello di Vincigliata, Fiesole, 1900. - bequeathed, probably to his nephew, Richard Luttrell Pilkington Bethell, 3rd Baron of Westbury (1852–1930). - Alberto Fassini Camossi (1875–1942), Rome. - to the heirs of Camossi, circa 1920. - Sotheby’s auction, London, 20.4.1988, lot 5. - Private collection, Reggio Emilia, 1994. - European private collection. Literature: - Raimond van Marle: The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague 1923–1938, Koller Auctions, Hardturmstrasse 102, 8031 Zürich. Tel +41 44 445 63 63.
[email protected] Koller Auktionen - Lot 3007* A192 Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens - vendredi 19 juin 2020, 14h00 Vol. VIII (1927), p. 252, fig. 150. - Adolfo Venturi: Collezione d'arte del Barone Alberto Fassini. Pitture dal 300 all'800, Milan 1930, fig X. - Bernard Berenson: Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 85. - Bernard Berenson: Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 73. - Bernard Berenson: Italian Paintings of the Renaissance: Florentine School, Oxford 1963, Vol. I, p. 29. This imposing depiction of the "Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine", having been in private hands for decades, now makes its reappearance on the art market. A work of museum quality, this is a masterpiece by the Florentine artist Bicci di Lorenzo, dating from the beginning of the early Renaissance, and artistically closely bound to the tradition of the 14th century.