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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 6, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Day Auction, Part I | 151 | $****** - ****** | Past and Present Generations |
paintings
35.9 x 22.5 cm (14.13 x 8.86 in)
oil on panel
signed and inscribed centre left: L. Alma-Tadema / Op. CCCXXVII
Commissioned by Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, in 1894;
From whom acquired by Mrs Selma Laufer, New York, by 1895;
With Asahi Art Co. Ltd, Tokyo, by 1970;
Private collection, Mexico;
Thence by descent;
Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby"s, 1 February 2019, lot 427;
Where acquired by the present owner.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd, Annual Winter Exhibition , October 1894, no. 26;
Birmingham, Royal Society of Arts, 31st Spring Exhibition , 1896, no. 65.
Catalogue of the Winter Exhibition at Arthur Tooth & Sons" Galleries , London 1894, no. 26, p. 8 (published as a photogravure print by Arthur Tooth & Sons in 1895);
‘Notes on Art and Archaeology', in The Academy , London, 27 October 1894, no. 1173, p. 335;
The Graphic: An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper , London, 3 November 1894, p. 526;
F.I. Bulgakov, Alma-Tadema , St Petersburg 1897, reproduced p. 8;
H. Zimmern, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA , London 1902, p. 72;
R. Dircks, ‘The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S', Art Journal (Supplementary monograph, Christmas issue), December 1910, p. 4, reproduced p. 32;
V.G. Swanson, Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World , London 1977, p. 140;
V.G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , London 1990, pp. 250-51, no. 364, reproduced p. 452;
R. Verhoogt, Art in Reproduction: Nineteenth-Century Prints after Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Jozef Israëls and Ary Scheffer, Amsterdam 2007, p. 674 n. 210.
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dronrijp 1836-1912 Wiesbaden
Past and Present Generations
signed and inscribed centre left: L. Alma-Tadema / Op. CCCXXVII
oil on panel, in an original frame designed by the artist
unframed: 35.9 x 22.5 cm.; 14⅛ x 8¾ in.
framed: 64 x 50.8 cm.; 25¼ x 20 in.
