Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17685/Peristil.61.11
Paintings from the Donation of Ante Topić Mimara to the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters in Sale Catalogues of the Auction House Lempertz from Cologne (1933–1943)
Ivan Ferenčak
orcid.org/0000-0001-9443-0420
; The Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Abstract
Through the analysis of sale catalogues of the auction house Lempertz from Cologne published during the Third Reich, the author identifies ten paintings later donated to the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters by Ante Topić Mimara. The paper presents new findings connected to the circumstances of their sale and gives an overview of Topić’s collecting activity and acquisitions. Apart from provenance-related issues, the author offers art historical analyses of paintings in question, with special regard to problems of their attribution.
Keywords
The Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Ante Topić Mimara; art collecting; art market during the Third Reich; Lempertz auction house catalogues; provenance and transfer of artworks
Hrčak ID:
219645
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Publication date:
15.3.2019.
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