ANTONIO POLLAIUOLO (1431 OR 1432-1498)

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Lot 38 | ANTONIO POLLAIUOLO (1431 OR 1432-1498)
ANTONIO POLLAIUOLO (1431 OR 1432-1498)

Battle of the Nudes

engraving

circa 1470-1475

on laid paper, without watermark

a clear, even impression of this rare and highly important print

second, final state

Sheet 405 x 578 mm.





Provenance

With Hill-Stone Inc., New York.

Acquired from the above in 1985, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

A. von Bartsch, Le Peintre Graveur, vol. XIII, Vienna, 1811, no. 2, p. 202.

A. M. Hind, Early Italian Engraving, vol. I, London, 1938, no. 1, pp. 189-192 (another impression illustrated).

M. J. Zucker, ed., The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. XXV, part 2, New York, 1984, no. 1, pp. 11-17 (another impression illustrated).



ADDITIONAL SELECTED LITERATURE:



L. Smith Fusco, ‘Battle of the Nudes’, in J. Levenson, K. Oberhuber, J. Sheehan, Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, exh. cat., Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1973, no. 13, pp. 63-80 (another impression illustrated).

D. Landau & P. Parshall, The Renaissance Print 1470-1550, London, 1994, pp. 74 & 75 (another impression illustrated).

E. Lincoln, The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker, London, 2000, pp. 30-32 (another impression illustrated).

S. R. Langdale, Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiuolo's Renaissance Masterpiece, Cleveland, 2002, no. 29, pp. 78 & 79 (this impression cited, other impressions illustrated).

M. P. McDonald, Ferdinand Columbus, Renaissance Collector, London, 2004, no. 1, p. 99 (another impression illustrated).

A. Wright, The Pollaiuolo Brothers, The Arts of Florence and Rome, London, 2005, pp. 176-183 (another impression illustrated).
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