Art Gallery of New South Wales acquire Zurbaran Still Life
July 3 2024
Picture: @matthiesengallery
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Matthiesen Gallery have announced on Instagram that the Art Gallery of New South Wales have acquired a Still Life by Juan de Zurbaran. The gallery had led a successful public appeal to help raise the funds to acquire the work. The painting had sold at auction in Madrid in October 2022 and had recently been on Nicholas Hall's stand at TEFAF 2024.
According to the gallery's website:
In this quintessentially Spanish still life, a pear and a shiny pewter plate containing five life-size apples are presented tantalisingly close to our gaze, as if beckoning us to reach out and hold them. The artist endows these ordinary objects we all know intimately – with an ineluctable sense of presence and mystery that they do not possess in real life.
