Sale 7596
London
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9 June 2008
Price realised
GBP 37,250
Estimate
A MONUMENTAL ICON NARRATING THE CHILDHOOD OF THE MOTHER OF GOD RUSSIAN, MIDDLE OF THE 17TH CENTURY Commencing in the upper left corner, the couple embracing at the gates of the city, having just completed their prayers, St. Joachim in the desert, shown to the left, and St. Anna in her garden, depicted to the right; below, reclining on a couch, St. Anna assisted by a number of maids, having given birth to the Mother of God, three other attendants ascending the staircase to her chamber; at the lower left, an image of the Mother of God's first bath, three swans represented adjacently; two scenes of Sts. Joachim and Anna with their daughter illustrated on the upper floor of the building to the right; the crowded architecture of the background painted in ochre, red and green, the decorative elements in white, the interior areas suggested by dark colours 28 x 20½ in. (72.2 x 52.1 cm)
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Literature
Catalogue of the exhibition Golden Light. Masterpieces of the Art of the Icon Koninklijk Museum, (Antwerp, 1988), no.71 Catalogue of the exhibition Kunst des Christlichen Ostens, (Hoechst, 1986), no. 155
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