European & British Paintings Day Auction

European & British Paintings Day Auction

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Property from a British Private Collection

Raffaello Sorbi

A Game of Bocce

Auction Closed

December 7, 01:32 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a British Private Collection


Raffaello Sorbi

Italian

1844 - 1931

A Game of Bocce


signed and dated Raf. Sorbi 1881 lower right

oil on canvas

Unframed: 28.5 by 47.5cm., 11¼ by 18¾in.

Framed: 41.5 by 60.5cm., 16¼ by 23¾in.

Probaby Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1882 (as Playing bowls)

Probably Sale: Christie's London, 1885 (as The bowl players)

M. Newmann Ltd, London

Purchased from the above by the present owner

Sorbi painted a larger version of this composition in 1893.