European & British Paintings Day Auction
European & British Paintings Day Auction
Property from a British Private Collection
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.
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