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• Auction House:
  Smith & Singer
• Sale Name:
  Important Australian & International Art
• Sale Date:
  18 Nov 2020 ~ 6.30pm (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  68
• Lot Description:
  Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M. R.A.
  (1836-1912)
  Una Carita (1883)
  oil on board
  11 x 8.5 cm
  signed and inscribed 'CCLI - / L ALMA - TADEMA OPUS' lower centre
  PROVENANCE: Painted for Giovanni Battista Amendolas Tombola, Naples, in May 1883; Count Padio Gaetani; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 27 June 1978, lot 51; Owen Edgar, London, until 1980; Christie's, London, 5 June 1981, lot 45; Christie's, London, 25 November 2003, lot 151, illustrated; Private Collection, acquired from the above; Victorian & British Art, Christie's, London, 12 December 2013, lot 57, illustrated (label verso); John Schaeffer AO, Sydney, acquired from the above; Sotheby's Australia (now trading as Smith & Singer); Mrs Veronica (Vera) Kolman, Sydney, acquired from the above; The Estate of the Late Veronica (Vera) Kolman, Sydney
• Exhibited:
  The Unknown Alma-Tadema, Brigham Young University, Utah, February 1979, no. 28
• References:
  Alma-Tadema's letter to C. Vosmaer, May 1883, in C.J.G. Vosmaer, Alma-Tadema Catalogue Raisonné, unpublished MS, Leiden, circa 1885; Rudolf Dircks, 'The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A., R.W.S.', Art Journal, Christmas Supplement, London, 1910, p. 31; Connoisseur, London, CXCVIII, June 1978, p. 117 (illustrated); Vern G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1990, cat. no. 288, pp. 288, 416, (illustrated)
• Estimate:
  A$35,000 - 45,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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