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Artist

Francisco de Zurbarán

Year
Fuente de Cantos 1598 - 1664 Madrid
Price range
1,000,000 – 3,000,000 USD +
Francisco de Zurbarán shares the podium with Velázquez and Murillo as one of the greatest artists of the Spanish Golden Age.

Zurbarán based himself in Seville, like the younger Murillo, at that time a world city and a major entrepot for the New World. His works are seen as archetypally Spanish in their austerity. It is debatable whether his dramatic chiaroscuro is due to the influence of Caravaggio (1571–1610), and the stark simplicity of his work may owe something to the monumental still lives of Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627), and the hyper-realism of Spanish polychrome sculpture.

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Selected artworks
Market

Top 3 auction prices

1,326,981 $
2009
3,512,000 $
2007
4,226,500 $
2010
Books on Zurbarán

Odile Delenda and María del Mar Borobia Guerrero, Zurbarán: A New Perspective, exh. cat., Madrid, 2015.

Odile Delenda, Francisco de Zurbaran 1598-1664, Madrid, 2009.

Jonathan Brown, Francisco de Zurbarán, New York, 1991.

Antonio Palomino de Castro y Lelasco, Lives of the Eminent Spanish Painters and Sculptors, 1715-24, trans. Nina Alaya Mallory, Cambridge, 1987.

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