Leonardo, Raffaello, Rubens… Ecco le cinque opere di Old Master più care vendute in asta
Mancano poche ore all’asta di Old Master da Sotheby’s a New York dove verrà battuto un ritratto realizzato da Sandro Botticelli stimato 80 milioni di dollari. Mentre rimaniamo in attesa di vedere se sarà venduto o meno per questa cifra straordinaria, diamo un occhio alle cinque aggiudicazioni più care in asta del settore “Old Master”, quello degli antichi maestri.
La Top Five
Salvator Mundi
oil on panel
25 7/8 x 18 in. (65.7 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1500.
Price realised USD 450,312,500
Estimate USD 100,000,000 – USD 100,000,001
Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Christie’s, New York, 15 Nov 2017
The Massacre of the innocents, circa 1611–12,
Sotheby’s, London, July 2002
Prize Realized: £49.5 million ($76.5 million)
Lot and his Daughters, circa 1613-1614.
Oil on canvas, 74 x 88 1/2 in. (190 x 225 cm)
Price realised GBP 44,882,500 ($58.2 million)
Estimate GBP 20,000,000 – GBP 30,000,000
Christie’s, 7 Jul 2016, London, Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale
Head of a muse
black chalk over pounce marks, traces of stylus,
watermark encircled Saint Anthony’s cross 12 x 8¾ in.
(30.5 x 22.2 cm.)
Price realised GBP 29,161,250 ($48 million)
Estimate GBP 12,000,000 – GBP 16,000,000
Christie’s, London, 8 Dec 2009
HEAD OF A YOUNG APOSTLE
Black chalk over pounced, dotted outlines
375 by 278 mm
Estimate 10,000,000 — 15,000,000 GBP
LOT SOLD. 29,721,250 GBP($47.8 million)
Sotheby’s, London, 05 DECEMBER 2012
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