ACQUISITIONS

LACMA

Cabrera Casta artwork sold by the gallery

We are pleased to announce the sale of a highly important painting by the Mexican master Miguel Cabrera to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

This lost work was one of two canvasses missing from Cabrera’s celebrated series of sixteen casta paintings.  It is undoubtedly the best preserved of the set and the only example still retaining its original scroll format. We are proud to have established its identity and honored to have represented the painting’s owner in securing its acquisition by the museum – a discovery described by the Los Angeles Times as “a major event in the art world.”

On View at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
from April 10th, 2015
 

Our thanks and congratulations to LACMA, to curator Ilona Katzew, and to Christina Jones Janssen.

The newspaper's cover that features the article. White background, black text, and color painting in the middle.

St. Martin's Church, Houston

Virgin Mary with putti

Robert Simon Fine Art is pleased to announce its recent sale of an altarpiece 

by Ippolito Scarsella, called Scarsellino:

 

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Ippolito Scarsella, called Scarsellino

(Ferrara, ca. 1550-1620)

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Oil on Canvas, 69 ¾ x 48 ¼ inches (177 x 125 cm)

Two pages of the church's circular. Left has blue background and the painting in the center, and the right features black text on a white background with a smaller version of the artwork. parishioners. of the painting.

Above: The painting on the cover of The Star, St. Martin's Parish Magazine

Currently on view at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas.

Our thanks and congratulations to the St. Martin's and their Supporters.

San Antonio Museum of Art

A woman in period dress poses with her left hand on a table and her right hand holds a fan

Robert Simon Fine Art is pleased to announce its recent sale of a Spanish Colonial work from the Eighteenth Century:

The Portrait of Dona Andrea Roman de Aulestia y Cedreros

Spanish Colonial School 
(Eighteenth Century)
Portrait of Doña Andrea Roman de Aulestia y Cedreros
 Oil on canvas, 75 5/8 x 50 inches (192 x 127 cm.)


Currently on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art


Our thanks and congratulations to the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Flint Institute of Arts

A female figure holds the decapitated head of a man whose body lies headless and nude to her right.

Robert Simon Fine Art is pleased to announce the recent sale of Gregorio Lazzarini's Judith and Holofernes

Gregorio Lazzarini
(Venice, 1655 – Villabona, 1730)
Judith and Holofernes
Oil on Canvas
64 1/2 x 80 inches (163.8 x 203 cm.)

 

Currently on view at the Flint Institute of Arts

Our thanks and congratulations to the Flint Institute of Arts, where the painting is currently on view in their European Paintings Gallery.