BARTOLOMEO BETTERA

(BERGAMO 1639-CIRCA 1699)

A globe with musical instruments, a palette and paintbrushes on a draped table-top
oil on canvas

measures 95.4 x 145.4cm (37 9/16 x 57 1/4in)

descrizione Oil on Canvas Framed

Provenance
Griggs collection (according to Literature)
with Spark Galleries, New York, 1963
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, 15 January 1987, lot 59 (as Studio of Bartolomeo Bettera)
With Simon Dickinson, London

Exhibited
The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, Dallas, The Art that Broke the Looking Glass, 14 November - 31 December 1961 (as Bartolomeo Bettera), no. 26

Literature
The Art that Broke the Looking Glass, exh. cat., 1961, p. 45, cat. no. 26 (as Bartolomeo Bettera)
M. Rosci, Baschenis & Co., Milan, 1971, pp. 62, 160-1, ill. p. 160, cat. no. 164 (as studio of Bartolomeo Bettera)