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DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO)

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Lot 11 | DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO)
Estimate value
$ 7 000 000 – 9 000 000
DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO)
Saint Sebastian
oil on canvas, an oval
35 ½ x 27 ¾ in. (90.2 x 70.5 cm.)




Provenance

(Possibly) in the artist's studio, Toledo, at the time of his death and included in his post-mortem inventories of 12 April and 7 July 1614 and by descent to his son,
(Possibly) Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli (1578-1631), Toledo, included in his inventory of 7 August 1621.
King Carol I of Romania (1839-1914), Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest by 1898, bequeathed to the institution of the Romanian Crown by King Carol I in his Testament of 14 and 26 February 1899,
Property of the Romanian Crown, Bucharest, 1914-1947,
Ownership transferred to King Michael I of Romania (1921-2017), 11-12 November 1947, with the accord of the Romanian government, by whom sold to the below in 1976,
with Wildenstein & Co., New York, in 1976 until acquired, through Giraud Pissarro Ségalot, New York, by the present owner in 2010.



Literature

(Possibly) Inventario de los bienes de Doménico Theotocópuli realizado por su hijo Jorge Manuel, compiled by Juan Sánchez de Soria, 12 April and 7 July 1614, MS 23041, fol. 1403v (P2523), Archivo Histórico Provincial de Toledo, Toledo, as 'Un S. sebastian grande'.
(Possibly) Inventario de bienes de Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli, realizado con motivo de su matrimonio en segundas nupcias con Gregoria de Guzmán, compiled by Rodrigo de la Hoz, 7 August 1621, MS 16949, fol. 1181r (P3087), Archivo Histórico Provincial de Toledo, Toledo, no. 133, as 'Un San Sebastian, del mesmo tamaño [de dos baras de alto y bara y quarta de ancho]'.
L. Bachelin, Tableau anciens de la Galerie Charles 1er, roi de Roumanie, Paris, 1898, p. 222, no. 169.
W. Ritter, 'La galerie de tableaux du roi Charles Ier de Roumanie,' in L'art et les Artistes, October 1906, p. 274.
M.B. Cossío, El Greco, Madrid, 1908, pp. 369-370, 614, and p. XII, no. 367, fig. 91 bis, dated 1594-1604.
(Possibly) F. de Borja de San Román y Fernández, ‘Inventario de los bienes del Greco,’ El Greco en Toledo, Madrid, 1910, p. 193 (fol. 3v, 'Un S. sebastian grande').
E. du Gue Trapier, El Greco, New York, 1925, p. 85.
A.L. Mayer, El Greco, Munich, 1926, p. 48, no. 301, dated 1599-1604.
F. de Borja de San Román y Fernández, ‘De la vida del Greco: Nueva serie de documentos inéditos,’ Archivo español de arte y arqueología, III, Madrid, 1927, pp. 291, 293, 299, notes 47 (with erroneous reference to 1614 inventory) and 69 (identifying the present lot as either no. 47: ‘Un San Sebastián, de tres quartas de alto y casi media bara de ancho, guarnecido de negro’; or no. 69: ‘Un San sebastian, de tres quartas de alto y media bara de ancho’; but tentatively identified by L. Ruiz Gomez in 2007 [see below] as no. 133: 'Un San Sebastian, del mesmo tamaño').
A.L. Mayer, El Greco, Berlin, 1931, p. 68.
A. Busuioceanu, ‘Les tableaux du Greco de la collection royale de Roumanie,’ Gazette des Beaux-Arts, series 6, II, May 1934, pp. 298-299, fig. 10.
A. Busuioceanu, Les tableaux du Greco de la collection royale de Roumanie, Brussels, 1937, pp. 18-19, pls. XIII-XIV.
A.L. Mayer, Exposition organizée par la Gazette des Beaux-Arts: El Greco, Paris, 1937, unpaginated, no. 5, illustrated, dated 1599-1603.
M. Legendre and A. Hartmann, Domenico Theotokopoulos called El Greco, Paris, 1937, p. 468, illustrated, p. 499, dated 1599-1603.
G. Delogu, 'Cronache delle esposizioni in Europa', La critica d'arte, XI-XII, September-December 1937, p. 256.
E. Wallenqvist, 'El Greco paa Galerie des Beaux-Arts,' Konstrevy, 1937, p. 172.
L. Goldscheider, El Greco, London, 1938, p. 25, pls. 147, 148.
M. Goméz Moreno, El Greco (Domenico Theotocópuli), Barcelona, 1943, p. 33, dated to the last decade of the 16th century.
J. Camón Aznar, Domenico Greco, Madrid, 1950, II, pp. 910-912, 1383, no. 536, figs. 710-711, dated c. 1600.
H. Soehner, ‘Greco in Spanien,’ Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, series 3, VIII, 1957, pp. 159, 167.
J.A. Gaya Nuño, La pintura española fuera de España, Madrid, 1958, pp. 200, no. 1358.
H.E. Wethey, El Greco and his school, Princeton, 1962, II, p. 147, no. 280, dated circa 1600-1605.
F.J. Sánchez Cantón, 'Adquisiciones del Museo del Prado (1956-1962),' in Archivo Español de Arte, XXXV, 1962, p. 307.
F.J. Sánchez Cantón, 'El Museo del Prado. Reformas y adquisiciones (1960-1962),' in Goya 50-51,1962, p. 74.
P. Eeckhout, ed. El Greco 1541-1614, exh. cat., Gand, Musee des Beaux-Arts, 10 September-1 November 1966, p. 50, under no. 17.
G. Manzini and T. Frati, L'opera completa del Greco, Milan, 1969, pp. 113-115, no. 122, fig. 122; p. 123, under no. 168, dated c. 1600.
J. Camón Aznar, Domenico Greco, 2nd ed., Madrid, 1970, p. 913, no. 536, fig. 773.
P. Guinard, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Greco, Paris, 1971, pp. 113-115, 123, no. 122.
J. Gudiol, El Greco, Barcelona, 1971, pp. 236, 242, 353, no. 194, fig. 218.
F.J. Sánchez Cantón, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de las pinturas, Madrid, 1972, p. 307, under no. 3002.
M.B. Cossío, El Greco, Barcelona, 1972, p.389, no. 313, dated 1594-1604.
J. Gudiol, Doménikos Theotokopoulos: El Greco, 1541-1614, New York, 1973, p. 236, no. 194, fig. 218, erroneously listed as in the Royal Palace, Bucarest.
B. Ascione, San Sebastiano nella storia e nell'arte, Naples, 1973, p. 83.
L. Di Pietro and E. Baccheschi, I geni dell'arte. El Greco, Milan, 1976, p. 111.
W.B. Jordan in El Greco of Toledo, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 1982, p. 245, no. 36, fig. 36, pl. 51, dated c. 1600.
J.M. Pita Andrade, El Greco, Verona, 1986, pp. 123, 154, 182, no. 228.
J. Álvarez Lopera, El Greco: la obra esencial, Madrid, 1993, pp. 224-25, 290, no. 228.
L. Ruiz Gómez, El Greco y la pintura española del Renacimiento, Madrid, 2001, p. 118.
G. Stanciu, Le goût hispanique en Roumanie et les peintures espagnoles de la collection Charles Ier (1845-1943), PhD thesis, Université de Montréal, 2006, I, pp.175 and 203, II, p. 239, fig. 159, pp. 249-50, figs. 194, 196 and 197 (with erroneous Quinto, Oudry and Bamberg provenance).
L. Ruiz Gómez, El Greco en el Museo Nacional del Prado, catálogo razonado, Madrid, 2007, pp. 176-181, notes 3, 4, 6, fig. 132.
N. Hadjinicolaou, ed., El Greco y su taller, Madrid, 2007, p. 238, 345, under no. 9.
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico D.F., Domenikos Theotokopoulos 1900. El Greco, 2 September-2 November 2009, p. 72.
L. Ruiz Gómez, 'El uso de estampas en la pintura de El Greco,' La biblioteca del Greco, Madrid, 2014, p. 99.
M.C. Garrido Pérez, El Greco pintor: estudio técnico, Madrid, 2015, pp. 221, 224, fig. 21.2.



Exhibited

Paris, Wildenstein, Exposition organizée par la Gazette des Beaux-Arts: El Greco, Paris, 1937, no. 5.
Madrid, Museo del Prado; Washington DC, National Gallery of Art; Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, El Greco of Toledo, 1 April 1982-6 February 1983, no. 36.
Artist:El Greco (1541 - 1614)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Nude art
Place of origin:Spain
Auction house category:Paintings
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