Kamis, 28 Januari 2021

Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sotheby's auction - ABC News

A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has sold at auction for $120 million, a record for the Renaissance master.

The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of roughly a dozen of his portraits known to survive today.

Sandro Botticelli's large-scale Birth of Venus and Primavera paintings are displayed in Florence's Uffizi Gallery.

Sotheby's said it was one of the most significant portraits of any period ever to appear at auction and fetched the second-highest price for any Old Master painting.

At $586 million, Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, set the world record in 2017 for an Old Master or any work of art.

People gather around Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, which is a painting of Christ.(AP: Kirsty Wigglesworth/File)

Bidders on the phone and online participated in Thursday's auction. The identity of the buyer was not disclosed.

The 15th-century work, which has also been known as Young Man Holding a Medallion, had carried a presale estimate of $104 million, and Sotheby's had thought it might fetch more than $130 million.

"This is not only an exceptional painting, it is also the epitome of beauty, and of a moment when so much of our Western civilisation began," said Christopher Apostle, director of Old Masters paintings at the auction house.

Sotheby's said Young Man Holding a Roundel was acquired for $1.7 million by its previous owner, late real estate billionaire Sheldon Solow, at an auction in 1982 in the United Kingdom.

It shows an unknown young man, likely a member of Florence's elite in the late 15th century, dressed in a simple tunic with a blue sky behind him and holding a roundel, or medallion.

The previous record for a Botticelli was set in 2013 when his Madonna and Child with Young Saint John the Baptist sold for $13.5 million.

Reuters

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