ID 791874
Lot 20 | MIKHAIL DAMASKINOS (HERAKLEION 1530/35-1592/93?)
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
The Ascension
oil on panel
12 x 9 1⁄2 in. (30.5 x 24.2 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Switzerland, by 1964.
Private collection, France, until 1990.
Literature
A. Morassi, 'Due primizie del Greco', Emporium, CV, no. 625, January 1947, pp. 11-17, as 'El Greco'.
R. Pallucchini, 'La vicenda italiana del Greco', Paragone, no. 45, September 1953, p. 31.
E. Arslan, 'Cronistoria del Greco "madonnaro"', Commentari, XV, July-December 1964, III-IV, pp. 393-4, fig. 5.
T. Pignatti in El Greco in Italy and Italian Art, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, pp. 388-9 and 547, fig. 389, as 'El Greco'.
Exhibited
New York, Piero Corsini Gallery, Venetian Paintings. From Titian to El Greco, 10 October-8 November 1991, no. 22, as 'El Greco'.
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Place of origin: | Greece |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
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| Place of origin: | Greece |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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