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Property from the Estate of a Private Collector

Giovanni di Tano Fei

Madonna and Child with Saints Lucy, Catherine of Alexandria, Anthony Abbot, and John the Baptist

Auction Closed

May 22, 04:37 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of a Private Collector

Giovanni di Tano Fei

Florence active 1384 - 1405

Madonna and Child with Saints Lucy, Catherine of Alexandria, Anthony Abbot, and John the Baptist


tempera on panel, gold ground, shaped top, in an engaged frame

painted surface: 24 ¼ by 13 ⅝ in.; 61.6 by 34.6 cm

framed: 37 by 18 in.; 94.0 by 45.7 cm

Art market, 1980s (as Circle of Alvaro Pirez);

Private collector, Washington, D.C.;

Thence by descent within the family to the late collector.

The attribution of the present painting to Giovanni di Tano Fei, a contemporary of Agnolo Gaddi who worked in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, was first proposed by Everett Fahy.