A New Ribera on the Market

Published on 16 January 2020, by Carole Blumenfeld

Auction on 16 June 2020 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 15 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

After Cimabue, Artemisia and the Master of Vyšší Brod, Paris is continuing the recent spate of discoveries with this new Ribera unearthed by Bertrand de Cotton and Benoît Derouineau in a large house in western France.

José de Ribera (1591-1652), Un philosophe : l’heureux géomètre (A Philosopher: the... A New Ribera on the Market

José de Ribera (1591-1652), Un philosophe : l’heureux géomètre (A Philosopher: the Happy Surveyor), oil on canvas, 100 x 75.5 cm.
Estimate : €200,000/300,000
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As soon as he saw the Daguerre auction house's discovery, Stéphane Pinta of Turquin expressed no doubts: "Ribera's Apostolados were conceived simply but effectively – and rapidly, too. According to Mancini, he could paint a Saint Jerome in only two days and a Judgment of Our Lord with ten figures in barely five. The artist's way of working directly from the model, with no preparatory drawings, gave his paintings a lively, spontaneous…

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