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Lot 9*

Jusepe de Ribera
(Jativa 1588-1656 Naples)
Saint Sebastian

6 July 2016, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £218,500 inc. premium

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Jusepe de Ribera (Jativa 1588-1656 Naples)

Saint Sebastian
signed and dated 'Jusepe de Ribera espanol./ .F. 1640' (lower right)
oil on canvas
131.7 x 105.2cm (51 7/8 x 41 7/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Demiami Collection, Germany
Their sale, Lepke, Berlin, 11 November 1913, lot 79
Sale, Gallerie Fischer, Lucerne, 9-11 September 1943, lot 735 (ill. pl. 12)

Literature
A. E. Pérez Sánchez, Caravaggio y el naturalismo español, Seville, 1973, exh. cat., under no. 40
N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Milan, 1978, p. 117, no. 158
N. Spinosa, L'opera completa del Ribera, Naples, 2003, p. 322, no. A237
N. Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Naples, 2006, p. 354, cat. no. A262, ill. p. 354

An unsigned version of the present work is at the Museo Bellas Artes Seville. It shows the Saint in the same position but with slight differences in the turn of the figure's head. An earlier pen and ink study now in the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco (see fig. 1) shows the similar torsion of the Saint's body and the contorted lower hand although the upper arms and head differ.

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