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Santi Massimo e Osvaldo
Lost Art-ID
630037
Artist / Creator
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
Birth
1696.03.05, Venedig
Death
1770.03.27, Madrid
Place of activity
Venedig; Udine; Mailand; Bergamo; Würzburg; Madrid
Title
Santi Massimo e Osvaldo
Dating
1742
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Measures
Frame dimensions: 69 x 46,3 x 5,3 cm
Height
50.50 cm
Width
27.80 cm
Inventory number
R 37
Description
recto not inscribed; verso on decorative frame upper left white label in black: [Exhibition Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Sept. 18-Dec. 12, 1993]; right next to it blue KHZ label; upper m. with chalk in red: A [or triangle]; next to it beige label in black: [Biennale di Venezia 1950, no. 217]; top r. with pencil in blue: 37 [numbering Ruzicka Foundation?]; below round white label on it with red: 124; on decorative frame centre r. embossing: [cross], circled with red; below embossing: AJH; in oval; on stretcher top centre: Italian customs label: 1 d / Merci / DOGANA ITALIANA / VISITATE / 1696; next to it with pen in blue: 33 [in circle; numbering Ruzicka Foundation]; partly above with chalk in red: A [or triangle]; centre right on stretcher Swiss customs stamp: ZOLL / II - 30 / [cross]
Provenance
probably, 1.7.1920 - at least until 1937, Alice and Richard Neumann, no. 10
[whereabouts unknown?]
n.d. - 24.1.1949, Walter Feilchenfeldt (*1894 Berlin, +1953 Zurich) (art dealer), Zurich
24 .1.1949, Leopold Ruzicka (*1887 Vukovar, +1976 Mammern) (collector), Zurich, purchase
24.1.1949 - 2005, Ruzicka Foundation (collection), Zurich, transfer
1949 - 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, loan
from 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, gift
The provenance between 1933 and 1945 has not been clearly clarified or has gaps. No evidence of Nazi-looted art has emerged from the available research. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. The provenance must be investigated further.
Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link
Literature / Source
Antonio Morassi: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G. B. Tiepolo, London: Phaidon Press, 1962, Nr. 140.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 126.
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