José María Sert El vendedor de ciruelas (The Plum Seller);...

José María Sert
Barcelona 1874 - 1945
El vendedor de ciruelas (The Plum Seller)
El vendedor de melones (The Melon Seller)

A pair, both oil on panel, unframed
(I) 275,5 x 99,8 cm ; 108½ by 39¼ in. ; (II) 275 x 100 cm ; 108¼ by 39⅜ in.

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Provenance:
Collection Henry Carnegie Phipps (purchased in 1924);

Thence by descent;

By whom sold ('Property from the Ogden Phipps Family Trust'), Sotheby's, London, 3 June 2009, lot 87;

Where acquired.

Literature:
M. Fanton, 'Brilliant Exhibit of Spanish Decorations', in Arts & Decoration, New York, March 1924, vol. XX, no. 5, pp. 8, 75;

The Sphere, London, 12 July 1924;

A. del Castillo and A. Cirici, José María Sert. Su vida y su obra, Barcelona & Buenos Aires, 1947, pp. 114, 119-120, p. 89, illustrated (erroneously located at Wretham Hall);

Madrid, Palacio de Velázquez, Parque del Retiro, José María Sert 1874-1945, 1987, pp. 106-107, (erroneously listed with larger measurements).