Lot 110
  • 110

Pieter Gysels Antwerp 1621 - 1690

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Pieter Gysels
  • The Fall of Icarus
  • oil on copper

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Lucerne, Galerie Fischer, June 5-7, 1984, lot 1451, reproduced;
Kofler-Truniger Collection, Lucerne;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, July 8, 1988, lot 47 (as Circle of Pieter Gysels).

Exhibited

New York, Lawrence Steingrad Fine Art, Portraits and Other Recent Acquisitions, 2005, no. 5.

Catalogue Note

At the time of the 2005 exhibition (see Exhibited below), Marijke C. de Kinkelder confirmed the attribution to Gysels.  This lot is also accompanied by a letter (photocopy) dated April 5, 1984, from Dr. Walther Bernt, ascribing the painting to Pieter Gysels.