Lot 49

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1698-1760)

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Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1698-1760)

Study of a standing nude (recto); A nude seated on a rock (verso)

Details

Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1698-1760)
Study of a standing nude (recto); A nude seated on a rock (verso)
red chalk on light brown paper
410 x 275 mm.

Provenance

Dr. L. Pollak (L. 788b); purchased in Rome, November 1949 by
Theodore Allen Heinrich, Christie's London, 6 July 1982, lot 194.

Literature

G. Knox, 18th Century Venetian Art in Canadian Collections, exhib. cat., Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1990, p. 74, under no. 58.

Exhibited

Pasadena, Art Institute, Old Master Drawings, 1952.
Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, 100 Drawings from the Heinrich Collection, 1953.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Similar in technique and on similar paper to two double-sided sheets sold in these Rooms, 27 November 1973, lots 350-1, since published by A. Morassi, Guardi, Tutti i Disegni, Venice, 1975, p. 90, no. 58-9, pls. 52, 54.

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