{"id":23489,"date":"2016-03-11T13:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=23489"},"modified":"2024-03-08T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T05:23:13","slug":"500-800-estimate-realizes-over-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2016\/03\/500-800-estimate-realizes-over-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"$500 &#8211; $800 Estimate Realizes Over $1 Million\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French art dealer Bertrand Gautier\u2019s hunch about a painting up for auction in New Jersey certainly payed off.\u00a0 The work, labeled as an\u00a0unknown artist from Europe\u2019s \u201cContinental School\u201d dating back to the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century was in fact one of the Dutch master, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn\u2019s first paintings.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Gautier, he was unable to snag the work for just a few hundred dollars since another art dealer, Bertrand Talabardon, shared the same feeling.\u00a0 At the end of the auction block battle, the two men racked up the selling price to over $1 million including the buyer\u2019s premium.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the work was painted between 1624 \u2013 1625 when Rembrandt was just 18 or 19 years old.\u00a0 It is part of a known series depicting the five senses, and this newly authenticated work has been titled <em>Unconscious Patient (Sense of Smell),<\/em> the fourth recovered work in the set\u2026the whereabouts of \u2018taste\u2019 are still unknown.\u00a0 Also, restorers discovered that the work had been \u201cRembrandtized\u201d in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century, meaning someone added a bit more \u201cdrama\u201d to the work by increasing the canvas size and juxtaposition, a painting technique used by Rembrandt that later influenced many important artists.<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to remove the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century addition, Gautier constructed a frame that partially enclosed the work.\u00a0 While the face of the frame is shut, all that is visible is Rembrandt&#8217;s own work, however once opened you can see the full, later added portion of the piece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/2016\/03\/10\/rembrandt-painting-discovered-at-new-jersey-auction-goes-on-display.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/rembrandt.jpg.size_.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg\" alt=\"rembrandt\" width=\"302\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French art dealer Bertrand Gautier\u2019s hunch about a painting up for auction in New Jersey certainly payed off.\u00a0 The work, labeled as an\u00a0unknown artist from Europe\u2019s \u201cContinental School\u201d dating back to the 19th century was in fact one of the &hellip; 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