Segna di Bonaventura (active 1298-1326)

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Segna di Bonaventura (active 1298-1326)

The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints Bartholomew and Ansanus and a kneeling female Donor

tempera on gold ground panel, pointed top
69 7/8 x 35¼in. (177.5 x 89.5cm.)

Provenance

Bonvini Collection, Florence
Bondi Collection, Florence
Luigi Pisa, Villa della Luna, San Domenico di Fiesole; sale, Alfredo Geri, Palazzo delle Prigioni, San Marco, Venice, 2-7 Sept. 1939, lot 343, illustrated p. 93, as Segna di Bonaventura
The Marcos Collection; sold on behalf of the Republic of the Philippines through the Presidential Commission on Good Government, Christie's, New York, 11 Jan. 1991, lot 7

Literature

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, II, The Hague, 1924, p. 153, fig. 103, as the work of a follower of Segna di Bonaventura
U. Ojetti, Catalogue de la Collection Pisa, 1937, I, p. 111, no. 721, and II, colour pl. CXVI, as school of Segna di Bonaventura
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, I, p. 393, as Segna di Bonaventura
J. H. Stubblebine, Duccio di Buoninsegna and His School, Princeton, 1979, I, p. 154, and II, fig. 501, as the Montalcino Polyptych Master and datable c.1330/5

Lot Essay

Professor Miklós Boskovits, in his review of Stubblebine, op. cit, in The Art Bulletin, LXIV, no. 3, September 1982, p. 497, states that in his opinion all the paintings given by Stubblebine to his 'Montalcino Polyptych Master' are in fact the work of Segna di Bonaventura.

Mr. Everett Fahy considers the paintings in this group, including the present panel, to be late works by Segna (private communication)

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