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Crocifissione
Crucifixion painting with many figures
Lost Art-ID
630018
Artist / Creator
Bugiardini, Giuliano di Piero di Simone (attributed historically to Lorenzo di Niccolò)
Birth
1475 / 1476.01.29, Florenz
Death
1554 / 1555.02.16, Florenz
Title
Crocifissione
Additional title
Crucifixion painting with many figures
Dating
1400 (around)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Tempera ; Panel / painted
Measures
Frame dimensions: 82 x 52 x 8.5 cm
Height
79.00 cm
Width
48.00 cm
Inventory number
1946/0015
Description
verso on wood upper centre in blue: HM 29 [hs] [1]; upper centre remains of a label; upper centre blue KHZ label; upper centre green label in black: WILDENSTEIN & CO., LTD. / 14 NEW BOND STREET / LONDON, W.1 / Exhibition The Art of Painting in Florence and Siena from / Date Feb/April, 1965 Cat. No. 28 / Artist LORENZO DI NICCOLO / Title The Crucifixion / Name&Address of Owner; top right brown KHZ labels; bottom left white KHZ labels
Provenance
1921 - undated, Galerie Bachstitz (gallery), The Hague
[whereabouts unknown?]
n.d. - 18.12.1946, Jacques Hubert Pierre Francois Menten (*1873 Muntok, +1964 Zurich) (intermediary), Rheinfelden
probably, at the latest from 18.5.1946 - 18.12.1946, Kurt Walter Bachstitz (*1882 Breslau, +1949 The Hague) (intermediary), The Hague
from 18. 12.1946, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde (collection), Zurich, purchase, as Lorenzo di Niccolò Gerini
from 1946, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (museum), Zurich, loan
The provenance between 1933 and 1945 has not been clearly clarified or has gaps. The available research does not provide any evidence of Nazi-looted art. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. The provenance must be investigated further.
Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link
Literature / Source
Europäische Kunst 13.-20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen, Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich (06.06.-13.08.1950), Zürich [1950], S. 14.
La Galerie Bachstitz / Galerie Bachstitz, 's-Gravenhage / The Bachstitz Gallery collection. Tome 1. Catalogue des tableaux et tapisseries, La collection de la Galerie Bachstitz, La Haye: La Galerie Bachstitz , [1921], Nr. 83.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 35.
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