Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Property from the Estate of Herman Schickman
Still Life of Artichokes and Tomatoes in a Landscape
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2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
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Property from the Estate of Herman Schickman
Luis Meléndez
Naples 1716 - 1780 Madrid
Still Life of Artichokes and Tomatoes in a Landscape
signed on small stone at right: L. Mz
oil on canvas
canvas: 24 ⅝ by 32 ⅝ in.; 62.4 by 82.7 cm.
framed: 33 ⅝ by 41 ⅞ in.; 85.5 by 106.4 cm.
Edward Sackville-West (1901-1965), 5th Baron Sackville;
By whose estate sold ("The Property of the late Lord Sackville"), London, Sotheby’s, 16 March 1966, lot 71;
Where acquired by Hallsborough Gallery, London;
From whom acquired by Herman Shickman, by 1970.
“Bibliografía. Mercado de Arte,” in Archiveo Español de Arte 39, no. 154-55 (1966), p. 256, no. 210, reproduced pl. III;
E. Tufts, A Stylistic Study of the Paintings of Luis Meléndez, doctoral dissertation, New York 1971, p. 183, cat. no. 58, reproduced fig. 53;
J.J. Luna, Luis Meléndez: Bodegonista español del signlo XVIII, Madrid 1982, p. 31, reproduced;
E. Tufts, “Luis Meléndez, Still-Life Painter ‘Sans Pareil,’” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (November 1982), p. 163, cat. no. 82, reproduced;
E. Tufts, Luis Meléndez: Eighteenth-Century Master of Spanish Still Life, with a Catalogue Raisonné, Columbia, Missouri 1985, p. 103, cat. no. 81, reproduced p. 185, pl. 81;
E. Tufts and J.J. Luna, Luis Meléndez: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Dallas 1985, pp. 100-101, cat. no. 24, reproduced pp. 4, 101;
N.A. Mallory, “Dallas, Luis Meléndez,” in The Burlington Magazine 985 (April 1985), p. 260;
J. Brown, “Review of ‘Luis Meléndez. Eighteenth-Century Master of the Spanish Still Life with a Catalogue Raisonné," in Art in America 73 (October 1985), p. 17;
J.J. Luna, “America en los bodegones de Luis Meléndez,” in Madrid en el context de lo hispánico, Madrid 1994, p. 537
J.J. Luna, Los alimentos de España en la pintura de bodegones de Luis Meléndez, Madrid 1995, p. 46, reproduced;
W.B. Jordan and P. Cherry, Spanish Still-Life from Velázquez to Goya, exhibition catalogue, London 1995, pp. 161-162, 216, cat. no. 59, reproduced p. 162;
R. Kasl and S.L. Stratton, Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment. Goya and His Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue, New York 1996, pp. 268-270, cat. no. 58, reproduced pp. 122, 268;
P. Cherry and J.J. Luna, Luis Meléndez: Still Lifes, exhibition catalogue, Dublin 2004, p. 108, under cat. no. 14, reproduced fig. 64;
P. Cherry and J.J. Luna, Luis Meléndez: Bodegones, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2004, p. 180, under cat. no. 13, reproduced fig. 95;
P. Cherry, Luis Meléndez: Still-Life Painter, Madrid 2006, pp. 150, 154, 540, cat. no. 81, reproduced p. 461;
G.A. Hirschauer and C.A. Metzger, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C. 2009, pp. 152-155, cat. no. 28, reproduced pp. 153, 155.
Amsterdam, Historisch Museum, 1970;
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Dallas, Meadows Museum; New York, National Academy of Design, Luis Meléndez: Spanish Still-Life Painter of the Eighteenth Century, 12 January - 1 September 1985, no. 24;
London, National Gallery, Spanish Still-Life from Velázquez to Goya, February - May 1995, no. 59
Indianapolis Museum of Art; New York, Spanish Institute, Painting in Spain in the Age of Enlightenment. Goya and His Contemporaries, 23 November 1996 - Spring 1997, no. 58;
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life, May 2009 - May 2010, no. 28;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, long term loan, 1999 - 2018.
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