Provenance: The Vincent Price Collection

ABOUT THE WORK

No other Juvenal Sanso painting has ever been offered in the art market that can equal the pedigree of this particular art piece. This painting was part of the internationally famous “Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art.” Vincent Price was an American actor who was also a world renowned art collector, lecturer, and gallery-owner who went to Yale and the University of London for art studies. In 1962, Vincent Price was hired by Sears-Roebuck to acquire any artwork he considered worthy of selection. Vincent Price went all over the United States and Europe and bought paintings that included works by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, James Whistler, Andrew Wyeth, and Salvador Dalí. The paintings he selected were advertised and marketed as part of the “Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art” and sold at Sears branches in the United States. This Sanso painting caught the art connoisseur’s discriminating taste because it was among the artworks included in the “Vincent Price Collection of Fine Art” and marketed alongside the works of art giants like Picasso, Chagall, and Dali. This Sanso masterpiece is in the collection of a Harvard University professor.