Flowers and Fruit in a Porcelain Bowl

1. Don José de Madrazo y Agudo (died 1859), Madrid by 1856 [Madrazo cat. 449]; sold by his heirs to Don José de Salamanca, Marqués de Salamanca, Madrid in 1861 [see Alaminos López and Salas Vázquez 1998, p. 169]. Condesa de Montarco, Madrid by 1905 [lent by her to Madrid 1905; see also handwritten annotation in stretcher]. Art market, probably by June 1933 [photographs both inscribed with the number N3939, bear expertises by Tancred Borenius of June 1933 and August L. Mayer of October 22, 1934; photos in curatorial file]. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1935 [according to New York 1955, cat. 21]. Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, New York, by 1936 [this and the following according to Brummer Gallery Records, object inventory card N3939; digitized by the Cloisters Library and Archives, Metropolitan Museum of Art, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Brummer Gallery, New York, May 26, 1936, for $7,000; sold to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, June 25, 1947, as part of a lot for $20,000; purchased by the Art Institute, 1947.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Exposicion de Zurbarán, 1905, cat. 48.
• New York, M. Knoedler and Company, Exhibition Celebrating Knoedler: One Hundred Years, 1846–1946, April 1–27, 1946, cat. 101, as Francisco de Zurbarán.
• New York, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, An Exhibition of Paintings for the benefit of the Research Fund of Art and Archeology, The Spanish Institute, Inc., October 12–November 1, 1955, cat. 21.
• Newark, New Jersey, The Newark Museum, The Golden Age of Spanish Still-life Painting late 16th through early 19th centuries, December 10, 1964–January 26, 1965, no. 39, as Francisco de Zurbarán.
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Spanish Still Life in the Golden Age 1600-1650, 11 May – 4 August 1985; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, September 8–November 3, 1985, cat. 46.
• Chicago, Art Institute, The Art of the Edge: European frames 1300–1900, October 17–December 14, 1986, cat. 31.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Flores españolas del Siglo de Oro. La pintura de Flores en la España del siglio XVII, November 15, 2002–February 2, 2003, cat. 9.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Zurbarán: una nueva mirada, 9 June - 13 September 2015; Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, 10 October 2015 - 31 January 2016, cat. no. 55.
• London, National Gallery, Zurbarán, Oct. 1, 2026–Jan. 31, 2027, no cat. no., fig. 71; Paris, Musée du Louvre, Feb. 25–June 17, 2027; Art Institute of Chicago, Zurbarán: Divine Light, Feb. 28–June 17, 2027.

• Catálogo de la galería de cuadros del Exmo. Sr. D. José de Madrazo (Madrid, 1856), p. 108, no. 449.
• José Cascales y Muñoz, Francisco de Zurburán, Su época, su vida y sus obras, Madrid, 1911, p. 93.
• Hugo Kehrer, Francisco de Zurburán, Munich, 1918, p. 147.
• Martin S. Soria, “Zurbaran, Right and Wrong,” Art in America 32, no. 3 (1944), pp. 129, fig. 2.
• M. S. Soria, “Francisco de Zurbarán, a Study of his Style,” pt. II, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, ser. 6, 25 (1944), p. 164.
• Helmut P. G. Seckel, “Francisco de Zurbarán as a Painter of Still Life,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, ser. 6, 30 (1946), pp. 288-289, fig. 8 and ser. 6, 31 (1947), p. 62, no. VII.
• Patrick T. Malone, “A Spanish Still Life,” pt. 2, Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 42 (1948), p. 17, ill. cover.
• Martin S. Soria, The Paintings of Zurbarán. complete edition (London, 1955), p. 177, no. 178, ill.
• César Pemán, “Juan de Zurbarán,” Archivo Español de Arte 31, 1958, pp. 201–210, pl. 4.
• Paul Guinard, Zurbarán et les peintres espagnols de la vie monastique (Paris, 1960), p. 281, no. 603.
• César Pemán, “Sobre bodegones zurbaranescos,” Archive Español de Arte 34 (1961), pp. 275–6.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961) p. 490, ill. p. 97.

The Crucifixion

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Saint Romanus of Antioch and Saint Barulas

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Portrait of Pablo Picasso

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Portrait of Picasso

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Abstraction (Guitar and Glass)

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Still Life with Game Fowl

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Juan Soriano De Lacandón

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The Checkerboard

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