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30 juillet 2018

Agostino Verrocchio, Fruit on a stone ledge

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Lot 58. Agostino Verrocchio (ROME 1586 - 1659), Fruit on a stone ledge, oil on canvas, 38 1/8  by 51 1/2  in.; 97 by 131 cm. Estimate 70,000 — 100,000 USD. Lot sold 40,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

Provenance: With Paolo Sapori, Spoleto.

Exhibited: Turin, Fondazione Accorsi, L'incantesimo dei sensi: una collezione di nature morte del Seicento per il Museo Accorsi, 30 November 2005 - 1 May 2006, no. 9.

Literature: L. Salerno, La Natura Morta italiana, 1560-1805, Rome 1984, p. 103, reproduced, fig. 25.3;
A. Cottino, F. Zeri (ed.), in La natura morta in Italia, Milan 1989, vol. II, p726, reproduced, fig. 863;
A. Cottino, L'Incantesimo dei sensi: Una collezione di nature morte del Seicento per il Museo Accorsi, Turin 2005, p. 58-59, 104, cat. no. 9, reproduced p. 59

Note:Little is known of the life of Verrocchio, who was probably working in Rome and Naples during the second quarter of the 17th century. Mina Gregori and Raffaelo Causa were the first to organize a group of paintings around this talented, albeit mysterious specialist. His working style places him squarely within the first generation of still life artists who were directly impacted by Caravaggio's groundbreaking, naturalistic approach to the independent still life genre. Indeed, his commitment to detail, and honest, observational approach to painting demonstrates his absorption of the Caravaggesque influence in his own work. One typical feature in his work, as can be seen here as well as in lot 52 in this sale, is the inclusion of a large amount of fruit and flowers, all seemingly packed to the edges of the picture plane.  In certain signed works, Verrocchio used the Latin form of his name, Augustinus Verrochius, suggesting he may have been born outside of Italy. 

Sotheby's. Master Paintings New York, 22 May 2018

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