Abraham Mignon - Still Life with a Pumpkin, Peach, Damsens, Grapes, and Insects - image-1

Lot 2077 Dα

Abraham Mignon - Still Life with a Pumpkin, Peach, Damsens, Grapes, and Insects

Auction 1153 - overview Cologne
30.05.2020, 11:00 - Fine Art
Estimate: 30.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 97.500 € (incl. premium)

Abraham Mignon

Still Life with a Pumpkin, Peach, Damsens, Grapes, and Insects

Oil on panel.. 34 x 26.5 cm.
Signed lower left: A. Mignon fec..

Abraham Mignon, an artist with Dutch roots but born in Frankfurt am Main, was not blessed with a long life, but enjoyed a successful career. His exceptional talent for depicting nature in detailed still lifes earned him a place as drawing teacher to Maria Sibylla Merian. His scintillating depictions of ripe and overripe fruits tell a tale of beauty and transience. Showing an arrangement of fruits with insect bites, leaves sprinkled with dew, a pumpkin, a caterpillar and two butterflies dotted about the scene, Mignon's composition presents us with a vanitas still life par excellence.

Provenance

In a Rhenish private collection for three generations.