Tomorrow at Sotheby's will Titian canvas with the 20 millionth estimeytom
In New York, held a week of auctions of Old Masters. Christie's auction will be held today. Sotheby's is conducting a series of five auctions
week trading works by old masters held in New York. The total upper estimate: painting, drawing and sculpture, the proposed auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's, is 187 million dollars.
Today, 26 January, Christie's will offer two sessions of the old masters and paintings of the XIX century . Top-lot auction is a Venetian landscape Luke Karlevarisa estimate: 3,5-4,5 million dollars (Lot № 43).
auction house Sotheby's will hold a week for five auctions of Old Masters. Yesterday, 25 January, has sold a collection of Charles Riskampa (Charles Ryskamp) - former director of New York's Morgan Library. Today, customers will be offered a collection of graphics Old Masters (194 lots), and 59 lots from the collection of Eli Jacob Safra (Jacob Elie Safra) - a member of the famous banking family Safra. And tomorrow will auction painting and sculpture by old masters. Completed this week trading "Old Masters and European art of the XIX century" on Jan. 28.
 Titian interview Holy Virgin and Child with St. Luke and Catherine of Alexandria. Ca. 1560 Oil on canvas. 127.8 x 169,7 Sotheby's. 01/27/2011. Lot № 156 Estimate: 15-20 million dollars Source: |
At tomorrow's auction at Sotheby's will be the most expensive lot of the week - Titian" Holy interview. The Virgin and Child with St. Luke and Catherine of Alexandria ». Cloth, written around 1560, estimated at 15-20 million dollars. This estimate exceeds the record $ 13.6 million, paid for a work by Titian at public auction 20 years ago. This is the painting "Venus and Adonis", sold in 1991 in London for 7.5 million pounds.
But this is not the most expensive work of Titian at all. For example, in 2008-2009 the National Gallery in London and Edinburgh were collected 50 million pounds in ransom for the nation's canvases "Diana and Actaeon from the Duke of Sutherland, who was going to put a picture with a hammer.
Canvas "The Virgin and Child with St. Luke and Catherine, like many other works written after 1550, was made by Titian, together with the students. Perhaps this explains the strange short right hand of St. Luke.
 Lucas Cranach JR Portrait of a lady in the green-orange dress and black hat, embroidered with pearls Oil on canvas. 61.6 x 39,4 Sotheby's. 01/27/2011. Lot № 164 Estimate: 3-4 million dollars Source: |
At the same auction at Sotheby's on Jan. 27 will be exposed portrait red-haired ladies in luxurious clothes brush Lucas Cranach the Younger (estimate 3-4 million dollars). Less than four years ago, this same picture was sold at Christie's in London for 3.7 million dollars - a record price for a work by this artist at a public auction.
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