Live Auction 7633Old Master & British Pictures (Day Sale)
Andrea di Bartolo (active Siena 1389-1428)
Lot 101 PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOTS 30, 31, 34, 35 AND 101-118)

Andrea di Bartolo (active Siena 1389-1428)

The Madonna dell'Umiltà, with two Angels

Closed3 December 2008

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GBP 61,250

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Andrea di Bartolo (active Siena 1389-1428)
The Madonna dell'Umiltà, with two Angels
tempera on gold ground panel, in an engaged frame
26 x 17 in. (66 x 43.1 cm.)

Paolini collection, Rome.
Robert Lehman, by whom given in 1957 to
the Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.A.
with Pardo, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 29 November 1986, lot 302, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Andrea di Bartolo painted the Madonna dell'Umiltà several times. H.W. van Os lists the various types and illustrates the present picture both before and after the restoration that altered the features of the faces (op. cit., pp. 119-27, pls. 69 and 70 respectively), presumably thinking that they were two different paintings. The restoration must have happened at some point after 1926, when the painting is recorded in the Paolini collection in its original state (photograph in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute, London).