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SOUTH GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN, PROBABLY SALZBURG, 15TH CENTURY

Lot 104
04.12.2024 16:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1344838
Lot 104 | SOUTH GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN, PROBABLY SALZBURG, 15TH CENTURY
Estimate value
£ 7 000 – 10 000
SOUTH GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN, PROBABLY SALZBURG, 15TH CENTURY
Pieta
polychrome limewood group; the reverse with a paper label from the 1961 Manchester City Art Gallery Exhibition; the underside with a paper label inscribed '430 / Helbing / München'
29 1/8 in. (74 cm.) high; 27 7/8 in. (71 cm.) wide




Provenance

Von Licht, Vienna until sold
Helbing Frankfurt, 7 May 1929, (catalogue by Georg Swarzenski), no. 306, pl. 9.
Dr Arthur Kauffmann (1887-1983), London, by 1961, and by descent to his son,
Professor Michael Kauffmann (1931-2023), London.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
C. L. Kuhn, German and Netherlandish Sculpture 1280-1800, Cambridge Mass., pp. 51-52, no. 8, pls. VI and VII.



Exhibited

German Art 1400-1800 from Collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, October - December 1961, cat. 4, lent by Arthur Kauffmann.
Medium:Wood
Art style:Renaissance
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Sculptures, Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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