Sotheby's spent the week polishing its trophies — a Klimt with a stratospheric estimate, a Frida Kahlo that ignited the room — but behind the polished glass and discreet lighting, a significant legal dispute involving a Modigliani has emerged. It concerns a painting...
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Rubens Painting Lost For Four Centuries Sells For €2.94 Million
A long-lost painting by Peter Paul Rubens, hidden for 4 centuries, was sold for €2.94 million this week in Versailles. The hammer came down at Osenat, the French auction house run by Jean-Pierre Osenat, who — in a stroke of luck and expertise — found the picture...
Turner’s First Exhibited Oil Painting Resurfaces After 167 Years
Update: J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) The Rising Squall, Hot Wells, from St Vincent's Rock, Bristol has achieved a staggering £1.9 million ($2.6 million) at Sotheby’s Old Masters and 19th Century Paintings evening auction in London. The lot saw heavy competition among...
Nicolas Poussin: Rediscovered Erotic Painting Auctioned At Hôtel Drouot
The French auction house Ader, in association with Cabinet Turquin, offers a remarkable early painting by Nicolas Poussin, which will be auctioned at Hôtel Drouot in Paris on 26 November 2024. Titled Vénus Épiée par Deux Satyres (Venus Spied Upon by Two Satyrs), this...
Unattributed Rembrandt Discovered In US Country Auction But Is It Right?
An unsigned portrait reputedly by the Dutch master Rembrandt has turned up in a Camden, Maine, attic. First estimated to bring $10,000 to $15,000, it surprised expectations by selling for $1.4 million at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. The buyer? A private buyer...
Artemisia Gentileschi: Misattributed Masterpiece Identified In The Royal Collection
A major painting by the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, has been identified in the Royal Collection after it was misattributed at least two centuries ago. The rediscovered painting, Susanna and the Elders, forms a significant addition to Artemisia’s extant body...
Rediscovered Antoine Watteau Painting Hits Christie’s Auction Block
It is rare for a major painting by Antoine Watteau (1684 – 1721) to surface on the open market. Most are held in leading museums and public collections around the world. The announcement of the rediscovery of 'Le Pèlerinage, a l'Ile de Cythère', has created quite a...
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered – TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates – Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
Uniquely Signed Painting By Decourt Discovered In London A miniature painting - bought 'unseen' during lockdown in 2020 has been positively attributed to the 14th- century court painter Decourt. The 57mm tall likeness was originally described as Sir Walter Raleigh,...
Lost Caravaggio Judith: Is This Painting Another Salvator Mundi?
A long lost painting attributed to Caravaggio which languished in a chateau attic in France for over 100 years is touring art market capitals and then going under the hammer at La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, in June. The much-hyped work could achieve up to the...
