José María Sert
El vendedor de burros (The Donkey Seller)
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
José María Sert
Barcelona 1874 - 1945
El vendedor de burros (The Donkey Seller)
Oil on three panels, unframed
275 x 296,7 cm ; 108¼ by 116¾ in.
Collection Henry Carnegie Phipps (purchased in 1924);
Thence by descent;
By whom sold ('Property from the Ogden Phipps Family Trust'), Sotheby's, London, 3 June 2009, lot 89;
Where acquired.
New York, Wildenstein Galleries, J.M. Sert, February 1924, room 1, no. 3.
M. Fanton, 'Brilliant Exhibit of Spanish Decorations', in Arts & Decoration, New York, March 1924, vol. XX, no. 5, pp. 8, 75;
The Sphere, London, 12 July 1924;
A. del Castillo and A. Cirici, José María Sert. Su vida y su obra, Barcelona & Buenos Aires, 1947, pp. 114, 119-120, pl. 52, illustrated;
Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, José María Sert 1874-1945, 1987, pp. 106-107.
