{"id":46950,"date":"2023-02-04T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=46950"},"modified":"2023-11-27T04:58:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:58:53","slug":"sothebys-masters-week-master-paintings-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/02\/sothebys-masters-week-master-paintings-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotheby&#8217;s Masters Week: Master Paintings Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46951\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/015n11145-c52yr-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46951\" class=\"wp-image-46951 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/015n11145-c52yr-01-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of a young man against a green background. He is dressed in dark colors, with a grey tunic, a black vest, and a black flat cap. He sits at a desk with a quill in hand, pointing to some lines written in Latin on a sheet of paper.\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/015n11145-c52yr-01-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/015n11145-c52yr-01-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/015n11145-c52yr-01-768x1079.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/015n11145-c52yr-01-1093x1536.jpg 1093w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/015n11145-c52yr-01.jpg 1423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Portrait of Young Man with a Quill and a Sheet of Paper<\/em> by Agnolo Bronzino<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To close out their nearly two-week-long Masters Week, Sotheby\u2019s New York hosted a two-part Old Masters sale on January 26th. While the first sale was far shorter than the second, it contained the greater bulk of the high-value pieces. Probably the most well-known and publicized was the Agnolo Bronzino <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portrait of Young Man with a Quill and a Sheet of Paper<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which art historians say is a possible self-portrait. Bronzino\u2019s mythological or biblical scenes may seem very odd today, given his figures\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reproduction-gallery.com\/catalogue\/uploads\/1525256031_large-image_agnolo-bronzino-venus-cupid-folly-and-time-1544-large.jpg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strange, disproportionate anatomy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, consistent with some other late Renaissance and Mannerist painters. However, that strangeness was not transferred to his portraits, some of the finest and most recognizable of the sixteenth century. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portrait of a Young Man with a Quill<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was recently in the news as having been returned by the German government to the estate of Ilsa Hesselberger. Hesselberger was a Munich socialite who, though Protestant by faith, qualified as Jewish under Nazi race laws and had her art collection confiscated before being deported to German-occupied Lithuania, where she was murdered. Her descendants had the portrait returned to them by the German government last year, and they decided to consign it to Sotheby\u2019s for this sale. When the Haselberger estate consigned the work, they had no idea it was a Bronzino portrait. Experts previously attributed the work to Bronzino\u2019s contemporary Jacopino del Conte. But once the dirt and varnish were cleaned off the painting, Sotheby\u2019s Old Masters specialists, with outside help from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, gave a positive attribution to Agnolo Bronzino. Sotheby&#8217;s specialists predicted the portrait would sell for anywhere between $3M and $5M. However, given the story behind its ownership and the fact that works by Bronzino rarely come to auction, the painting sold for $9M (or $10.6M w\/p). According to Ilsa Hesselberger\u2019s descendants, the proceeds will go to several charitable organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46952\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/n11145-c9rpl-01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46952\" class=\"wp-image-46952 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/n11145-c9rpl-01-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting of a nude elderly man with grey hair and beard against a plain, brown background.\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/n11145-c9rpl-01-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/n11145-c9rpl-01-751x1024.jpg 751w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/n11145-c9rpl-01-768x1048.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/n11145-c9rpl-01-1126x1536.jpg 1126w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/n11145-c9rpl-01.jpg 1466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Study for Saint Jerome<\/em> by Anthony van Dyck<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming in second place at the sale is another painting that was in the news recently because of its provenance. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Study for Saint Jerome<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Anthony van Dyck was considered lost for hundreds of years until it turned up in upstate New York, where it had been collecting dust in a shed. No one entirely knows where the Van Dyck came from before turning up in Kinderhook, New York. Collector Albert Roberts found and purchased the piece in 2002 for $600. Van Dyck experts agree that the study is an early work, likely from when the Flemish master was a student under Peter Paul Rubens. Predicted to sell for $2M to $3M, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saint Jerome<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> eventually fell nicely within estimate, with the hammer coming down at $2.5M (or $3.07M w\/p). Following up close behind the Van Dyck was an early fourteenth-century <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nativity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> scene. Previously, the small 8-by-6\u00bd-inch panel had been attributed to the pre-Renaissance master Giotto. But when it came to auction in 2004, specialists reattributed the work to an anonymous painter known by art historians only as the Master of the Spinola Annunciation. The panel was originally part of a set of four, showing the lives of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. The first of these panels, now in a private collection in Italy, is an Annunciation scene at one point owned by the Spinola family of Genoa, giving the artist their academic name. The second lot in the sale, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nativity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hit its low estimate at $2M (or $2.43M w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46953\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46953\" class=\"wp-image-46953 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"A pre-Renaissance biblical scene on wood panel showing the birth of Christ. Joseph sits in the foreground with a flock of sheep, while Mary, the Baby Jesus, and shepherds sit in the wooden manger. Above, three angels observe the scene.\" width=\"226\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-839x1024.jpg 839w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn-768x938.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nativity<\/em> by the Master of the Spinola Annunciation<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of course, a sale like this wasn\u2019t without its surprises. While a small handful of lots achieved double their high estimates, one painting stood out in particular. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/cad7598\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1652x2000+0+0\/resize\/1024x1240!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2Fb1%2F5f%2Fb98bc827469ebd5fe945a92029c3%2Fn11145-9sl2v-bi-01.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portrait of Lucy Loftus<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was created around 1673 by Sir Peter Lely, not long after the subject\u2019s marriage to the Viscount Lisburne. The portrait had several prominent owners, including Britain\u2019s first Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, as well as Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who kept the portrait at the Breakers mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Predicted only to sell for $300K at most, the portrait eventually sold for $1.25M (or $1.57M w\/p).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the fifty-three lots available, twenty-one (40%) went unsold. Surprisingly though, the sale\u2019s total fell within its presale estimate range, likely because of the Bronzino portrait selling for as much as it did. Even though only eight lots (15%) sold within estimate, with fourteen lots (26%) selling above, the entire sale brought in $23.6M, slightly above the $22.9M minimum total estimate. The sale would have done far better had some of the other highly-valued lots, like Sebastiano del Piombo\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/af23f95\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1543x2000+0+0\/resize\/1024x1327!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fmedia-desk%2Fwebnative%2Fimages%2F35%2F32%2Fe632093c432bae5265c4f082644e%2Fn11145-chvrc-01.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Portrait of a Young Woman Holding a Crown of Laurels<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (est. $1.5M to $2M), met their reserves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To close out their nearly two-week-long Masters Week, Sotheby\u2019s New York hosted a two-part Old Masters sale on January 26th. While the first sale was far shorter than the second, it contained the greater bulk of the high-value pieces. 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