Auction on
04 February 2022 - 16:00 (CET) -
Chapelle des Carmélites, 1, rue du Périgord, - 31000 Toulouse
For a long time an enigmatic master Bernhard Strigel, the best-known representative of a family of artists from Memmingen, can count on his guardian angels to rewrite his history.
Bernhard Strigel (1460–1528), Angel in a Yellow Tunic Holding a Censer, oak panel, 48.7 x 61 cm/19.17 x 24.02 in. Estimate: €600,000/800,000
Bernhard Strigel (1460–1528), Angel in a Yellow Tunic Holding a Censer, oak panel, 48.7 x 61 cm/19.17 x 24.02 in. Estimate: €600,000/800,000
There is almost an air of déjà vu. However, thurifer angels, abundant in stained glass and sculpted decorations since the Middle Ages, are not legion in late Gothic German painting. If Angel Dressed in a Yellow Tunic Holding a Censer may seem familiar, it is because it is the counterpart to the Angel with a Censer mentioned by Laurence des Cars, in her book Louvre Abu Dhabi: naissance d'un musée published in 2013. Censing Angel, oil on panel by Bernhard Strigel, dated circa 1520, which once belonged to the engineer and painter Henri Rouart, made a notable appearance at the Hôtel Drouot in 2008 and was acquired by the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Sold by Jean-Marc Delvaux with an estimate of €60,000/80,000, it fetched €1.1 million, an unbroken record for the artist. Like its counterpart Angel Dressed in a Yellow Tunic and Holding a Censer was hidden away in a French collection. Its story is like something out of a detective novel. The Master of the Hirscher Collection was identified in 1881, when Wilhelm von Bode, the eminent curator of the Berlin Museum, found a long inscription on the back of a portrait of Johannes Cuspinian and his family,…
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