by admin | Feb 3, 2023 | Auctions, Authentications & attributions, Restoration
Sometimes the big international auctions present sensational works, which arrive to update and modify the knowledge of the “catalog” of the greatest painters of the past. During the Sotheby’s auction at the end of January 2023, among a Rembrandt, a...
by admin | Jan 23, 2022 | Auctions, Authentications & attributions, Discoveries
The analyses on the Man of Sorrows inflame the debate on attribution One of the last paintings by the Florentine painter still in private hands will be sold at the “Master Paintings and Sculpture” auction, Sotheby’s New York, on January 27, 2022. A few weeks before...
by admin | Jan 19, 2022 | Auctions, Authentications & attributions, Discoveries, Fakes, Instruments, Studies and Projects
A captivating and surprising story, as intriguing as a noir novel by Michel Bussi. The story of a rejected Van Gogh, then fortunately recognized thanks to the precious work of the experts The story of this work begins in 1908, when an industrialist, the Norwegian...
by admin | Oct 28, 2021 | Auctions, Authentications & attributions, Fakes
On last October 25th, Pablo Picasso would have turned 140 years old, yet his art is still very current. He remains an extremely important artist for the history of art and the icon of genius.He chose the Genoese surname, Picasso, of his mother, because it was rarer...
by admin | Feb 21, 2021 | Art Word, Auctions, Authentications & attributions
The renewed controversy over the attribution of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi calls for a reflection on how it has become all-important not so much to choose which painting to buy but which attribution. We have seen several times how the purchase of some artworks was...
by admin | Jan 5, 2021 | Auctions, Authentications & attributions, Highlights
“In the past century, and at the beginning of this one, dealing with Botticelli would have seemed madness”, wrote Symonds, a great scholar, specialist of the Italian Renaissance, in 1877. And in 1895, Bernard Shaw followed, among others: “Today ten acres of Carracci,...
