ID 1358471
Lot 13 | BALTHASAR VAN DER AST (MIDDELBURG 1593 / 4-1657 DELFT)
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 800 000
Peaches, plums, oranges, apples, cherries, grapes, redcurrants, blackcurrants, crab apples and other fruit in a pewter vase, with a red admiral butterfly, a dragonfly and other insects, with grapes and other fruit, seashells, a lizard, a caterpillar and a wasp on a ledge
signed '.B. Van der. Ast.' (lower right)
oil on panel
23 ¾ x 33 ¾ in. (60.3 x 85.7 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Foreign Deceased Estate]; Sotheby's, London, 28 March 1979, lot 17.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Trust]; Christie's, London, 7 July 1989, lot 51, where acquired by,
J.E. Safra (b. 1947), Geneva; his sale [Important Old Master and 19th Century Paintings from the Collection of J.E. Safra], Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2011, lot 40, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
S. Ayooghi, S. Böhmer and T. Trümper eds., Die Stilleben des Balthasar van der Ast (1593/4-1657), exhibition catalogue, Aachen and Gotha, 2016, p. 204, fig. 1.
| Artist: | Balthasar van der Ast (1593 - 1657) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Balthasar van der Ast (1593 - 1657) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Still life |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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