ID 1441851
Lot 32 | TADDEO GADDI (FLORENCE C. 1320-1366)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
Saint Matthew - pinnacle to the San Giovanni Fuorcivitas Polyptych
tempera on gold ground panel, shaped top, in an engaged frame
24 1/8 x 10 in. (61.3 x 25.5 cm.)
Provenance
Commissioned as part of a polyptych for the church of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas, Pistoia.
Private collection, America, from whom acquired in 1949 by,
Willard B. Golovin (1882-1974), New York; (†), Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2003, lot 61, when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section IV: Andrea di Cione, I, New York, 1962, p. v, no. 16.
K. Steinweg, 'Zwei Predellen Tafeln des Taddeo Gaddi', Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, XI, 1963, pp. 194-6 and 200, fig. 1.
M. Cämmerer-George, Die Rahmung der Toskanischen Altarbilder im Trecento, Strasbourg, 1966, pp. 114 and 115.
P.P. Donati, Taddeo Gaddi, Florence, 1966, p. 38.
M. Chiarini, ed., Dipinti Restaurati della Diocesi di Pistoia, Florence, 1968, pp. 4, 5 and 7.
R. Offner, in H.B.J. Maginnis, ed., A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Supplement: A Legacy of Attributions, New York, 1981, p. 70.
F. Zeri and M. Natale, Dipinti toscani e oggetti d'arte dalla collezione Vittorio Cini, Vicenza, 1984, p. 7.
A. Ladis, Taddeo Gaddi: Critical Reappraisal and Catalogue Raisonné, Columbia and London, 1982, pp. 5, 159-161 and 166, fig. 19-13, illustrated.
E.S. Skaug, Punch marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico: Attribution, Chronology and Workshop Relationships in Tuscan Panel Painting with Particular Consideration to Florence, c. 1330-1340, Oslo, 1994, I, p. 93; II, punch chart 5.2.
M.S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, I, Prague, 1998, pp. 131 and 517.
S. Chiodo, 'Una tavola ritrovata e qualche proposta per Taddeo Gaddi,' Arte Cristiana, LXXXIX, 2001, pp. 249 and 252-254, fig. 6.
A. Labriola, in M. Boskovits, ed., The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA: Italian Paintings from the 13th to 15th Century, Florence, 2009, I, pp. 199-204, no. 35.
Artist: | Taddeo Gaddi (1290 - 1366) |
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Medium: | Gold ground panel |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Taddeo Gaddi (1290 - 1366) |
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Medium: | Gold ground panel |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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