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From the helm of the London-based art advisory, Edward Warburton tells us what areas of the market he's watching closely.
Credit: Sandro Botticelli, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Long before the fiery pits and pitchforks of Christian Hell haunted the religious imagination, ... Sheol was no longer neutral ground; it ...
The UK government has placed an export bar on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Sandro Botticelli valued at £10.2m. The work, The Virgin and Child Enthroned (1470s), was sold at Sotheby’s London ...
China remained the largest market for sales in the wider Old Masters sector in 2021, although its share by value declined 15% to 43% (and 15% of lots sold). Behind the highest selling artist Sandro ...
Berlin-born Max Liebermann helped to shift the art landscape in the German capital in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This large-scale (151.2cm x 212cm) painting presents the two biblical ...
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, attributed to the workshop of Sandro Botticelli, drew in three bidders and realised $550,000 ($660,000 with fees) against an estimate of $100,000 ...
Art History What Is Botticelli’s Greatest Painting? The 10 Most Iconic Works by the Florentine Artist, Ranked. Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance.
Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child Enthroned. ... with Andalusian Horse and A Wooded Landscape, was the top lot of the night, selling for £3.4 million ($4.3 million).
Sotheby’s similarly sized Old Master & 19th century paintings sale the following evening contained 25 lots, but did include a work by Sandro Botticelli, one of the few true “trophy” names ...
In Sandro Botticelli’s iconic “The Birth of Venus” ... (2018), a giant, godlike feminine hand hovers above a lifeless landscape, its blue shadow appearing like a lake on the ground; ...
Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Botticelli, and Studio, The Virgin and Child, with a landscape beyond . Image courtesy Sotheby’s.