ID 887430
Lot 102 | HERRI MET DE BLES, CALLED CIVETTA (BOUVINES OR DINANT C. 1510-AFTER 1550 ANTWERP)
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 250 000
Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos
signed with the artist’s owl device (lower left)
oil on panel
20 1/4 x 33 1/2 in. (51.5 x 85 cm.)
Provenance
Nils Tellander, Lausanne (according to a note in the Max. J. Friedländer archive: 'Tellander / Lausanne / VI.58')
with Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1986-1987.
with J.O. Leegenhoek, Paris, where (probably) acquired by the mother of the present owner in or not long after 1987, by descent.
Literature
L. Serck, Herri Met de Bles, PhD Thesis, Louvain Catholic University, 1971, pp. 859-864, no. 59.
L. Serck, 'Le château de Montaigle et le peintre Henri Bles', Demeures Historiques & Jardins, CLXXXVIII, December 2015, pp. 21-22, figs. 11a-c.
Exhibited
Vienna, Galerie Sanct Lucas, Gemälde alter Meister, Winter 1986/87, no. 2.
| Artist: | Herri met de Bles (Civetta, 1510 - 1555) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Herri met de Bles (Civetta, 1510 - 1555) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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