DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO) AND STUDIO - photo 1
DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO) AND STUDIO - photo 2
DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO) AND STUDIO - photo 3
DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO) AND STUDIO - photo 4

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

Lot 16
01.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 16 | DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO) AND STUDIO
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£ 600 000 – 800 000
DOMÉNIKOS THEOTOKÓPOULOS, CALLED EL GRECO (CRETE 1541-1614 TOLEDO) AND STUDIO
Christ taking leave of His Mother
oil on canvas
41 ¼ x 46 3/8 in. (104.8 x 117.8 cm.)




Provenance

Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo, Madrid.
Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, by 1932, and by descent.



Literature

M. Gómez-Moreno, 'La despedida de Cristo y la Virgen, cuadro del Greco', Archivo español de arte y arqueología, III, 1927, p. 92, as 'El Greco'.
M. Legendre and A. Hartmann, El Greco, Paris, 1937, p. 167, as 'El Greco'.
A. Busuioceanu, Les tableaux du Greco de la Collection Royale de Roumanie, Brussels, 1937, p. 13, as 'El Greco'.
J. Babelon, El Greco, Paris, 1946, no. 18, illustrated, as 'El Greco'.
D. Hannema, Catalogue of the D.G van Beuningen Collection, Rotterdam, 1949, p. 98, no. 89, pls. 148-150.
J. Camón Aznar, Dominico Greco, Madrid, 1950, pp. 422 and 425, nos. 213 and 214, fig. 304, as 'obra de taller'.
H.E. Wethey, El Greco and his school, II, Princeton, 1962, p. 180, no. X-68, as 'Workshop replica, c. 1585-1590'.
H.E. Wethey, El Greco y su Escuela, rev. ed., Madrid, 1967, p. 195, no. X-68, as a 'Workshop replica of c.1585-90'.
M.B. Cossio, El Greco, Barcelona, 1972, p. 361, no. 57, as 'El Greco'.
E. Baccheschi, El Greco: The Complete Paintings, Granada, 1980, p. 42, no. 53c, as a 'version with variations' of the Danielson painting.
M.B. Cossio, El Greco, Madrid, 1981, p. 274, no. 57.
J. Giltaij, D.G. 50 jaar Van Beuningen 1958-2008, online, 2012, accessed 13 May 2025, p. 40.
L. Ruiz Gomez, ‘El reencuentro con un original de El Greco’, Ars magazine: revista de arte y coleccionismo, XIV, 2012, p. 55 and 58, illustrated, as 'obra de calidad pintada hacia 1580-1585'.
L. Ruiz Gomez, El Greco and Modernism, exhibition catalogue, Dusseldorf, 2012, p. 72, as a work 'which has been attributed to the workshop, although...one should not rule out the participation of the master'.



Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Catalogus van de Kersttentoonstelling in het Museum Boymans, 23 December 1932-17 January 1933, no. 18, illustrated, as 'El Greco'.
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Meesterwerken uit de Verzameling D.G. van Beuningen, 9 July- 9 October 1949, no. 89, as 'El Greco'.
Paris, Petit Palais, Chefs-d'Oeuvre de la Collection D.G. van Beuningen, 31 October 1952-15 February 1953, no. 13.
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