
Still Life of a Porcelain Bowl with Wild Strawberries
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May 21, 02:59 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Adriaen Coorte
Ijzendijke 1659/1664 - 1707 Vlissingen
Still Life of a Porcelain Bowl with Wild Strawberries
signed and dated lower center: A. Coorte. / 1704
oil on canvas, unlined
canvas: 11 ¾ by 9 ⅛ in.; 29.8 by 23.2 cm
framed: 18 ⅝ by 15 ¾ in.; 47.3 by 40.0 cm
Possibly Auguste Coster (1827-1907), Brussels;
Possibly his estate sale, Brussels, J & A Le Roy, 4 April 1907, lot 68;
Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie’s, 20 May 1987, lot 208;
Where acquired by Robert Noortman Gallery, Maastricht and London;
From whom acquired by Renata and Michal Hornstein, Montreal, 1987;
From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Small Wonders: Dutch Still Lifes by Adriaen Coorte, 29 June - 28 September 2003, no. 11;
The Hague, Mauritshuis, Ode to Coorte, 23 February - 8 June 2008, no. 54;
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 20.
Possibly L.J. Bol, Adriaen Coorte: A Unique Late Seventeenth Century Dutch Still-Life Painter, Assen 1977, p. 57, cat. no. 63;
P. Hermesdorf, “De restauratie van een schilderijtje van Adriaen Coorte uit 1704,” in Tableau 11, no. 4 (February 1989), pp. 89-90, reproduced figs. 1-12;
F.J. Duparc, The Renata and Michal Hornstein Collection, European Old Masters, Montreal 1990, unpublished manuscript, n.p., cat. no. 25;
A.K. Wheelock, Jr., Small Wonders: Dutch Still-Lifes by Adriaen Coorte, exhibition catalogue, 2003, pp. 8-9, 11, cat. no. 11, reproduced;
T. Dibbits, “Aardbeien, abrikozen, kruisbessen en perziken: vier stillevens van Adriaen Coorte,” in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 52, no. 2 (2004), pp. 164-165 notes 19-20;
Q. Buvelot, The Still Lifes of Adriaen Coorte (active c. 1683-1707), With oeuvre catalogue, exhibition catalogue, The Hague 2008, pp. 42, 112, cat. no. 54, reproduced;
J. Walsh, in The Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter Collection of Dutch Paintings, L. Lehmbeck (ed.), Los Angeles 2019, pp. 73, under cat. no. 9, 228 note 8;
A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 92-95, 172, cat. no. 20, reproduced.
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