GRAND SPRING AUCTION OF PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, LATIN AMERICAN ART AND FINE WATCHES
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In the form of a Triptych of the Order of Malta, with three leaves and where we also distinguish San Sebastian, Patron Saint of Palermo painted on panel and San Francisco de Paula next to San Roque, and, on the lower plane, the Three Wise Men in a posture of adoration to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Trapani in the center, on the left side, Saint Anne and Saint Joachim. Provenance: important private Valencian collection, bibliography: “Die Madonna von Trapani und ihre Kopien de ella. Studien zur Madonnen. Typologie und zum Begriff der Kopie in der sizilianischen Skulptur des Quattrocento”, Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz, 14 (969-70) 297-322; SIDDI, L., “Le copie della Madonna di Trapani in Sardegna”, in El món urbà a la Corona d’Aragó del 1137 als decrets de nova planta. XVII Congress of History of the Crown of Aragó, Barcelona, 2003, vol. 2, pp. 421-431. Open triptych measurements: 85 x 63 x 18 cm, Virgin of Trapani measurements: 33 x 10 x 7 cm. Measurements of each door: 73 x 27 cm
