Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Sano di Pietro

Nativity

Auction Closed

January 28, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Sano di Pietro

Siena 1405-1481

Nativity


tempera and gold ground on panel

panel: 20 5/8 by 15 7/8 in.; 52.4 by 40.3 cm. 

framed: 23 3/8 by 18 3/4 in.; 59.4 by 47.6 cm. 

Please note that there is a guarantee and an irrevocable bid on this lot.
Miss Dora Wilson;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 26 February 1958, lot 30;
Fielding Lewis Marshall, London;
By whom sold, London, Bonham's, 28 March 1974;
With Colnaghi, London, by 1978;
Barbara Piasecka Johnson, by 1988;
Anonymous sale ("The Property of  Private Collector"), New York, Christie's, 31 January 1997, lot 127;
With Calypso Paintings, Ltd.;
From whom acquired, 2002. 
G. Damiani, I Libri di Coro, L'Osservanza di Siena: La Basilica e i suoi condici miniati, 1984, p. 163;
K. Christiansen, in Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420-1500, exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, pp. 166-167, cat. no. 25, reproduced;
A.S. Labuda, Opus Sacrum, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw 1990, pp. 62-65, cat. no. 8;
P. Torriti, La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena. I dipinti dal XII al XV secolo, 3rd edition, Genoa 1990, p. 201;
A. Galli, in The Alana Collection: Italian Paintings from the 13th to 15th Century, M. Boskovits (ed.), Florence 2009, pp. 184-186, cat. no. 32, reproduced.