Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to Benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund
Workshop of Doménikos Theotokopoulos, called El Greco
Adoration of the Shepherds
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May 22, 04:37 PM GMT
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40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Property of The Bass, Miami Beach to Benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund
Workshop of Doménikos Theotokópoulos, called El Greco
Heraklion 1541 - 1614 Toledo
Adoration of the Shepherds
oil on canvas
canvas: 41 ⅜ by 33 in.; 105.1 by 83.8 cm
framed: 53 ⅛ by 44 ½ in.; 134.9 by 113.0 cm
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 11 April 1968, lot 125;
Where acquired by R. Perman;
Anonymous sale, New York, Tepper Galleries, 25 October 1974;
Where acquired by John and Johanna Bass, New York;
By whom bequeathed to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in 1979 (inv. no. 1979.502).
Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Robert Henri and Spain, Face to Face, 27 September 2014 - 4 January 2015;
Miami, Bass Museum of Art, Pascale Marthine Tayou: Beautiful, 29 October 2017 - 21 May 2018.
Produced after El Greco's death in 1614, when his son, Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli oversaw workshop production, the present work is a studio variant of the Adoration of the Shepherds altarpiece produced circa 1596-1600 for the Dona María de Aragón collegiate church in Madrid, today in the National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest.1 The nocturnal scene is here rendered in reverse, but the theatrical arrangement of the dynamically posed elongated figures and the high-keyed palette are quintessential characteristics of El Greco's late style.
1 inv. no. 8423/457.
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