Yesterday in New York, the trades Christie's «Old Master Paintings" and "Renaissance". Total result for the two auctions totaled 62.6 million. "Madonna and Child" by Fra Bartolomeo was bought for 12.96 million - a record for the price of works by this artist.

«Madonna with the Infant Christ and St. John the Baptist "by Sandro Botticelli hammer price reached $ 10.4 million, breaking the upper limit of the estimate $ 7 million. This work in 1925 by John D. Rockefeller purchased the legendary art dealer Baron Dyuvina. The picture remained in the Rockefeller collection for over 50 years, in connection with which even had the name "Madonna Rockefeller." Yesterday at Christie's put her collector who got it in 1992 for 440 thousand dollars. Earlier work by Sandro Botticelli "The Virgin with the infant Christ and St.. John the Baptist "repeatedly exhibited in exhibitions devoted to the artist, including held in 2004 in the Florentine Palazzo Strozzi exhibition" Botticelli and Filippino: the passion and grace of Florentine painting XV century. " In December last year the picture visited Moscow as part of the pre-show Christie's .

Sources : artinvestment.ru