At the online auction “Dipinti Antichi” (Old Master Paintings) held April 10–16 by Pandolfini in Florence, a battle scene in poor condition—catalogued as the work of an anonymous 17th-century Lombard artist and estimated at €2,000–3,000—was sold for a remarkable...
Diagnostics helps Next week at auction, respectively at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, two paintings connected to Rembrandt will be offered: the first, at Christie’s, was recently downgraded to “Follower of Rembrandt” (Christie’s); the second, at Sotheby’s, has had its...
Could it have been a very young Amedeo who painted this portrait of a girl? This artwork, which admittedly does not look like the famous Modigliani, but supposedly was painted when the artist was only 12, has been studied for years and has been subjected to numerous...
How to distinguish a copy from the original, one author from the other? French painter Laurent de la Hyre, “Cyrus Announcing to Araspas that Panthea Has Obtained His Pardon” Surely you need more than a connoisseur eye, at least considering how many...
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...
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...
