Luis Borrassà (Girona, c. 1360 - Barcelona, c.... Lot 6

Luis Borrassà (Girona, c. 1360 - Barcelona, c. 1425) “Announcement to Joaquín and Ana” y " The embrace at the golden gate " Pair of panel paintings in tempera. Circa 1415-1424. 79 x 43 cm. y 77 x 41 cm. As Velasco notes in his study of these previously unknown panels, “We find ourselves before two compartments of a previously unknown altarpiece which we attribute to Lluís Borrassà, a painter documented as being in Catalonia between 1380 and 1424. Velasco, in his in-depth study, links these two panels with others which have recently appeared on the market in Barcelona, as originating from the same reredos: “The backs of the panels have a marbled decoration which attests to the fact that these compartments were reused in the baroque period. This decoration does not appear on the panels that were added during the previously mentioned restoration work. The presence of this decoration, along with the fact that the panels were cut out, is a particularly significant detail for justifying their attribution to a second set of previously unknown panel paintings which we also ascribe to Lluís Borrassà and which appeared on the market in Barcelona at a recent date. These are six compartments which have been taken from a reredos which technically and stylistically are clearly related to these ones. The aforementioned panels depict the Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple (71 x 25 cm), Joachim among the shepherds (56,5 x 26 cm), the Disputation between Jesus and the Doctors of the Church (71 x 25 cm), A King of the Epiphany (71 x 25 cm), the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (71 x 25 cm), and two angel musicians, which must have connected to the painting of the Madonna and Child on the main panel of the altarpiece.” (50,5 x 16 cm). Stylistically, Velasco explains: “the set of panels devoted to the Virgin Mary which we are studying here are very close to the paintings ascribed to Borrassà’s later period, such as the reredos of Saint Martha, Saint Dominic and Saint Peter the