With an estimated value of up to $170 million, the painting was due to go under the hammer in June 2019, but was snapped up by an anonymous foreign buyer just two days before the auction. And while it’s entirely possible that by stepping back in 1967, he sensed the irreversible nature of the decision he was taking, it seems unlikely he fully realised the consequences of his actions. The biblical-style canvas depicted a beautiful Jewish widow beheading a sleeping Assyrian general. An engineer by training and now an expert in art diagnostics, Maurizio Seracini may have just hit pay dirt: After more than 30 years of searching for a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting, he has. This masterpiece had been missing for so long that some people doubted its existence. In 2014, a lost masterpiece by Caravaggio called 'Judith and Holofernes' was found under an old mattress in the attic of a house in the French city of Toulouse. The painting has been declared 'not for export' and will not be able to leave Spain.' 'As to who painted it, different experts are studying the work and right now we have no further information. 'Lot 229 has been withdrawn from the auction so it will not go under the hammer this afternoon,' an Ansorena spokeswoman told AFP.

Marked with an opening price of €1,500, it was to have been sold today at the Ansorena auction house in Madrid. on suspicion it may be a Caravaggio'.Įntitled 'Coronation with Thorns', the canvas shows Jesus before his crucifixion and was attributed in the auction catalogue to 'the entourage of (Spanish artist) Jose de Ribera'. Kay Dick is a name all but forgotten today, but in the midtwentieth century she was at the heart of the London literary scene. This month, she examines an anomalous work, They, in Kay Dick’s already anomalous oeuvre. Writing on Twitter, Culture Minister Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes said the painting had been declared 'not for export. AugRe-Covered In her column, Re-Covered, Lucy Scholes exhumes the out-of-print and forgotten books that shouldn’t be. The artwork’s location went cold 25 years ago, until 2020 when a solo investigation pieced together a trail of clues and shined new light on its disappearance. I couldn’t believe that Leonardo da Vinci’s most revered work during his lifetime was right beneath this 43 by 25 ft fresco. The Spanish government has blocked the auction of a 17th-century oil painting in Madrid on suspicion that it may actually be a lost masterpiece by Renaissance artist Caravaggio. Lost Duveneck Masterpiece Found Lost Duveneck Masterpiece Found Frank Duvenecks painting, titled Yacht Harbor, was exhibited in the 1904 World’s Fair. The mystery behind Leonardo da Vinci’s lost masterpiece by Trina Pal NovemAs I stared up at Giorgio Vasari’s painting, The battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana, uncontrollable chills traveled down my spine.

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