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Circle of Francesco Guardi
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Francesco Guardi
- still life with an array of flowers, including roses and tulips, in a basket with two doves
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's Olympia, 3 July 2007, lot 494 (;
Private Collection, Spain.
Private Collection, Spain.
Catalogue Note
This painting belongs to a distinct group of floral still lifes which have been associated with Francesco Guardi and his circle due to one of these, now in a private collection, being signed F.Co.GI. For this and a discussion of the whole group see G. and U. Bocchi, Naturaliter, Rovigo 1998, pp. 466-76, figs. 593-603. Other examples, possibly by the same hand, include a painting sold in Vienna, Dorotheum, 14 April 2005, lot 30 (for €32,000)and a pair sold in Vienna, Im Kinski, 21 April 2010, lot 2 (for €87,500).