NICOLÁS SOLANA
Active in Aragon between 1401... Lot 50
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NICOLÁS SOLANA
Active in Aragon between 1401 - 1441
Angel with phylactery
Tempera on panel and gold background
Measurements 58 x 37.5 cm
Work referenced in :
- Frankfurter, Alfred M., "The Paintings in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art", The Ars News, Vol. XXXII (no. 10), December 1933, p. 29 and 36 (reproduced).
- Post, Ch. R. A History of Spanish Painting, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass, 1934, vol. V, p. 310, fig. 97.
- Post, Ch. R. A History of Spanish Painting, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass, 1935, vol. VI, part. II, pp. 600 and 601.
- Post, Ch. R. A History of Spanish Painting, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass, 1941, vol. VIII, part. II, pp. 663.
- Ars Hispaniae", Ed. Plus Ultra, Madrid, 1955, vol. IX, p. 163.
- Gudiol, José, Medieval painting in Aragón, Instituto Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza, 1971, p. 41, cat. 93.
- Handbook of the Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum, Kansas City, vol. I, 1973, p. 262.
Work exhibited at:
- "Official Art Exhibition of the San Diego Exposition", Palace of Fine Arts, San Diego, California, USA, May-November 1935, no. 567, p. 30.
Provenance:
- The Collection of William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, USA (label on back).
- Christie's New York, April 6, 1989, lot 198.
- Xavier Vila Antiquari, Barcelona, 1989.
- Private collection, Madrid.
The enigmatic personality of the Aragonese painter Nicolás Solana has been linked to the artist Juan de Levi. The only signed work that we know of is the central panel with two apostles that comes from the altarpiece dedicated to the Holy Apostles in the Junyer collection in Barcelona.
Curiously, a document is preserved that attests that Nicolás had a brother who was also a painter, named Juan, to whom the panels in the Junyer collection and an Epiphany from the Valencia Institute of Don Juan in Madrid are attributed.
The present work that belonged to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City has been related to the altarpiece of San Pedro from the Daroca Collegiate Museum, which comes from the church of San Pedro, in addition to the panels with the Noli me tangere and the Ascension of the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao.
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