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src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/606d99ce8036e658c1996cb2866c9476959796d0-4000x2713.jpg?w=1200&h=814&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format"/><figcaption class="mt-base max-w-col-2 print-max-w-full"><div class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-tight text-gray-700"><p><em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Hercules at the Court of Omphale</em> (1533) attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop <span class="text-gray-400 block">Courtesy Christie's</span></p></div></figcaption></figure></div><div class="grid-in-content lg:grid-in-series"><div style="height:auto"><div class="ad-container mb-xl" id="material_body_slot_1"></div></div><div><div class="w-full"><div class="mb-2xl" itemProp="articleBody"><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year-over-year, overall sales totals failed to live up to the pre-sale estimates set by the auction houses.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Christie’s New York staged a bumpy and uneven Old Master sale on Wednesday (6 January), making $19.5m ($24.4m with fees), just shy of its revised pre-sale estimate of $22.2m to 33.2m after four withdrawals. Still, the sale far exceeded <a class="transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900" href="/2024/02/02/old-master-sale-recap-new-york">last January’s anemic result</a> of $10.9m ($13.7m with fees).</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">The sombre yet impressively outfitted <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony</em> attributed to Lucas Cranach I and workshop sold for $260,000 ($327,600 with fees), settling a restitution dispute over ownership between the Allentown Art Museum and the heirs of Henry and Hertha Bromberg, whose forebears acquired the oil-on-panel work in 1917 and were forced to flee Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The museum acquired the work in 1961 from an unnamed New York gallery.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael’s large-scale <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Adam and Eve</em> (around 1610-15) sold to a telephone bidder for $1.65m ($2m with fees) against a $1m to $1.5m estimate. The work was based on Albrecht Dürer’s iconic engraving from 1504. Switching to still life, Pieter Claesz’s <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">A peeled lemon on a pewter plate, a pewter wine jar, a roemer, gooseberries and red currants in a dish, a knife, on a partially draped table</em> (1632) brought in a below-estimate $575,000 ($724,500 with fees). The work had been in the same private collection since 1980.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">A sans workshop-aided work by Lucas Cranach I, <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Hercules and Omphale</em> (1532), sold to another anonymous telephone bidder for $1.5m ($1.8m with fees) against an estimate of $1m to $2m. In the painting, the artist’s serpent device is a substitute for his signature and the work features the demigod Hercules, still amorous but outfitted in women's clothing as slavish punishment from Omphale, the Queen of Lydia.</p><figure class="w-full mt-xl mb-xl first:mt-0 last:mb-0 relative max-w-2xl"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="644" height="800.1988071570577" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" style="color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 644 800.1988071570577'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/png;base64,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'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/b2065abfc84e588c9cbc7a85526db53920fb4e01-1006x1250.png?w=750&h=932&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 1x, https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/b2065abfc84e588c9cbc7a85526db53920fb4e01-1006x1250.png?w=1920&h=2386&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 2x" src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/b2065abfc84e588c9cbc7a85526db53920fb4e01-1006x1250.png?w=1920&h=2386&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format"/><figcaption class="mt-sm max-w-full"><div class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-tight text-gray-700"><p><em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Saint Sebastian</em> by El Greco Courtesy Christie's</p></div></figcaption></figure><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">The would-be star of the sale—and possibly the whole Old Masters week, at least estimate-wise—was Doménikos Theotokópoulos’s (better known as El Greco) dramatic <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Saint Sebastian, </em>which portrays the saint as a willowy, mostly nude figure pierced by six arrows and looking heavenward in surprisingly rapturous calm. It was estimated by Christie’s to sell for between $7m and $9m. The painting was <a class="transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900" href="/2025/02/06/christies-pulls-el-greco-from-sale-after-romanian-government-intervenes">withdrawn at the 11th hour</a> after legal wrangling by representatives of the prime minister of Romania over claims the long-ago King Carol I was the rightful owner.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Christie’s issued a statement late Tuesday without any specific reference to Romania: “We received an inquiry about the work. Christie’s takes these matters seriously and out of an abundance of caution is withdrawing the lot at this time. We look forward to selling this unique and spectacular work at a later date.” The withdrawn painting was last acquired privately for the seller by the now-disbanded art advisory powerhouse Giraud Pissarro Segalot in 2010 for an undisclosed price.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Back in the salesroom, Johann Georg Platzer’s jam-packed and multi-figured <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">An artist’s studio</em> in oil on copper, originally gifted to a Russian empress and later sold to the dealer Bob P. Haboldt, fetched $130,000 ($163,800 with fees).</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">The sole woman artist on the roster turned heads, but ultimately Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun’s seated <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of a woman traditionally called Mademoiselle George three-quarter length</em> (after 1800) failed to meet its undisclosed reserve and was bought in at $95,000. In another and more successful femme fatale vein, Francois Boucher’s reclining nude, <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Sleeping Diana</em>, portrays the goddess of the hunt wearing her headdress and quiver of arrows snugly fit beneath her arm. The painting realised $1.2m ($1.5m with fees) against a $1.2m to $1.8m estimate.</p><figure class="w-full mt-xl mb-xl first:mt-0 last:mb-0 relative max-w-2xl"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="644" height="352.75100000000003" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" style="color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 644 352.75100000000003'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/jpeg;base64,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'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/e6b1c84fe31b2144a656c8e8b16ff34d7e792f9d-4000x2191.jpg?rect=1,0,3998,2191&w=750&h=411&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 1x, https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/e6b1c84fe31b2144a656c8e8b16ff34d7e792f9d-4000x2191.jpg?rect=1,0,3999,2191&w=1920&h=1052&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 2x" src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/e6b1c84fe31b2144a656c8e8b16ff34d7e792f9d-4000x2191.jpg?rect=1,0,3999,2191&w=1920&h=1052&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format"/><figcaption class="mt-sm max-w-full"><div class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-tight text-gray-700"><p><em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Sleeping Diana</em> by Francois Boucher <span class="text-gray-400 block">Courtesy Christie's</span></p></div></figcaption></figure><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Jan Both’s drama-filled <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">An Italianate Landscape with Bandits Leading Prisoners</em> (around 1650) was deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and failed to find a buyer; it was bought in at a $720,000 chandelier bid.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">“It was a mixed bag and mixed result, and we got two things very reasonably, so there’s always something that drops,” said Edmondo di Robilant from Robilant + Voena. The dealer snagged Charles-Antoine Coypel’s <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of of a man in a painted frame</em> (1781) for $50,000 ($63,000 with fees) against a $120,000 to $180,000 estimate, along with Luca Giordano’s rather stunning and large-scale <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Samson and Delilah</em> (late 1650s) for $65,000 ($81,900 with fees), far less than its $150,000 to $250,000 estimate. It last sold at Sotheby’s London in July 1997 for £199,500 ($336,879 with fees).</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text"></p><h4 class="font-text-narrow-medium font-medium text-lg leading-tighter tracking-wide mb-md">‘Getting works in all areas to the auction block is harder than ever’</h4><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">On Thursday (6 February), the first part of Sotheby’s Master Paintings & Sculpture sale came on deck and delivered a stronger $23.3m ($27.5m with fees) result against a pre-sale estimate of $25.2m to $37.2m. It comfortably surpassed the <a class="transition-all duration-default shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900" href="/2024/02/02/old-master-sale-recap-new-york">February 2024 sale</a>’s tally of $16.8m ($21m with fees), even after six last-minute withdrawals. Still, the sale registered a battle-weary sell-through rate of 59.2%. Three lots came backed by house guarantees and six by irrevocable bids, also known as third-party guarantees.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text"><em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria</em>, 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 to $150,000. The work was deaccessioned by the Bass Museum in Miami Beach to benefit the John and Johanna Bass Art Acquisition Fund.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Still on the religious front, Raffaello Sanzio or Raphael completed the contemplative and barefoot <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Saint Mary Magdalene</em> (around 1503) when he was only 20 years old. The painting sold to an anonymous telephone bidder for $2.6m ($3.1m with fees) against a $2m to $3m estimate. It came to market backed by a third-party guarantee. The consignor acquired it at Christie’s New York in May 2000 for $611,00 with fees, when it was titled <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Saint Mary of Egypt</em>.</p><figure class="w-full mt-xl mb-xl first:mt-0 last:mb-0 relative max-w-2xl"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="644" height="903.6774193548387" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" style="color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 644 903.6774193548387'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/jpeg;base64,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'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/fcb5cf414dea12878bfcbabb1bc39a278e34057d-3472x4872.jpg?rect=0,1,3472,4870&w=750&h=1052&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 1x, https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/fcb5cf414dea12878bfcbabb1bc39a278e34057d-3472x4872.jpg?w=1920&h=2694&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 2x" src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/fcb5cf414dea12878bfcbabb1bc39a278e34057d-3472x4872.jpg?w=1920&h=2694&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format"/><figcaption class="mt-sm max-w-full"><div class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-tight text-gray-700"><p>Annunciation by Peter Paul Rubens <span class="text-gray-400 block">Courtesy Sotheby's</span></p></div></figcaption></figure><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Sir Peter Paul Rubens’s oil sketch <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Annunciation</em> (around 1628-29) is modestly scaled but brimming with bravura content. It features Mary with the angel Gabriel fluttering above her and sold to Patrick Williams of New York’s Adam Williams Fine Art for $4m ($4.8m with fees) against a $4m to $6m estimate. It last sold at Sotheby’s London in 2014 for considerably more, £3.1m ($5.4m) including fees.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">A familiar-looking <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Hercules at the Court of Omphale</em> (1533) attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop—quite similar (though larger) to the one that sold on Wednesday at Christie’s for twice the price—sold to another telephone bidder for $700,000 ($840,000 with fees). Still outfitted in women’s clothing and slavishly spinning thread, this time Hercules is grabbing the backside and breast of two of the ladies-in-waiting.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Back to single-figure portraiture, Jacopo Tintoretto’s <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of a Young Man Wearing a Fur-lined Cloak</em> (around 1548) was last publicly seen at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC’s exhibition <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Tintoretto of Renaissance Venice</em> in 2019. At Sotheby’s this week, it realised $1.8m ($2.1m with fees). Leaning against an elaborately carved column depicting acanthus leaves, the titular figure stares out confidently, perhaps contemptuously at the viewer.</p><figure class="w-full mt-xl mb-xl first:mt-0 last:mb-0 relative max-w-2xl"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="644" height="846.6440677966102" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" style="color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 644 846.6440677966102'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/jpeg;base64,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'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/6fbab0bd53a024e0e7c998323158e272756cfaac-5428x7136.jpg?w=750&h=986&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 1x, https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/6fbab0bd53a024e0e7c998323158e272756cfaac-5428x7136.jpg?w=1920&h=2524&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 2x" src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/6fbab0bd53a024e0e7c998323158e272756cfaac-5428x7136.jpg?w=1920&h=2524&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format"/><figcaption class="mt-sm max-w-full"><div class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-tight text-gray-700"><p><em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of an elegantly Attired Noblewoman in Profile </em>by Bernardino de’ Conti</p></div></figcaption></figure><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Bernardino de’ Conti’s sombre though elaborately dressed <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of an elegantly Attired Noblewoman in Profile</em> (around 1500) came with a third-party guarantee and loped to a $2.8 m ($3.1m with fees), an auction record for the Milanese painter in Leonardo’s circle.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Backed by a full-on house guarantee, Spagna’s exquisite and calming <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Madonna and Child in a Verdant Landscape</em> (around 1510) stumbled and went unsold at $380,000 against an estimate of $800,000 to $1.2m.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Another guaranteed entry was Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s action-packed <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Nest Robber </em>(after 1616), which depicts in part a young peasant climbing a tree to snatch his bounty, sold to a telephone bidder for $2.5m ($3m with fees). The painting was consigned by the Swiss collectors Hans and Marion König.</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">One of the more sought-after works, and another König lot insured with an irrevocable bid, Cornelis de Vos’s <em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of a Young Girl at a Virginal</em> (around 1625-30) raced to $1.7m ($2m with fees) against an estimate of $600,000 to $800,000. The couple acquired it in 1985 from the Richard Green Gallery in London.</p><figure class="w-full mt-xl mb-xl first:mt-0 last:mb-0 relative max-w-2xl"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="644" height="834.444833625219" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" style="color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 644 834.444833625219'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'/%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image/jpeg;base64,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'/%3E%3C/svg%3E")" srcSet="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/8a54056dab419b3b4760d0128098c8b916ef3629-3997x5179.jpg?rect=1,0,3996,5179&w=750&h=972&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 1x, https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/8a54056dab419b3b4760d0128098c8b916ef3629-3997x5179.jpg?w=1920&h=2488&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format 2x" src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/8a54056dab419b3b4760d0128098c8b916ef3629-3997x5179.jpg?w=1920&h=2488&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format"/><figcaption class="mt-sm max-w-full"><div class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-tight text-gray-700"><p><em class="font-text-light-italic font-light italic">Portrait of a Young Girl at a Virginal</em> by Cornelis de Vos <span class="text-gray-400 block">Courtesy Sotheby's</span></p></div></figcaption></figure><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">A second Sotheby’s Master Paintings sale realised $2.8m ($3.3m with fees), somewhat shy of its $3.2m to $4.6m pre-sale estimate. </p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">While Sotheby’s had something to crow about this round, London-based and seasoned art adviser Morgan Long observed after the first sale: “All the markets are tough to sell and getting works in all areas to the auction block is harder than ever.”</p><p class="pt-dp-p font-text-light font-light text-lg leading-normal tracking-wide mb-base last:mb-0" itemProp="text">Another kind of Old Master topped all others this week: the rare-to-market Joachim-Ma Stradivarius violin, hand-crafted by Antonio Stradivari in Cremona, Italy in 1714. The violin, with a still-stunning amber gold varnish, sold at Sotheby’s on Thursday afternoon in a one-off auction for $10m ($11.3m with fees), breaking the record for the highest price ever achieved for a musical instrument at auction. 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leading-tight tracking-loose text-gray-700">8 July 2022</span></span><a class="block text-gray-800 hover:text-red-900 transition-colors duration-default cursor-pointer mb-md" href="/2022/07/08/digging-deep-for-old-master-treasures-mixed-results-at-london-sales"><h4 class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl font-text-narrow-medium font-medium text-lg sm:text-base leading-tight tracking-loose">Digging deep for Old Master treasures: mixed results at London sales as dearth of 'good material' continues</h4></a><div class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl last:mb-0 mb-sm"><div class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl empty:hidden last:mb-0 mb-xl"><p class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-snug text-gray-700 w-full max-w-col-2-xl">Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals</p></div><div class="leading-none mb-sm last:mb-0"><span class="text-gray-700 font-sans-regular font-normal text-sm sm:text-xs leading-tight whitespace-nowrap"><span class="whitespace-normal"><a class="font-sans-bold font-bold shadow-link transition-all duration-default hover:shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900" href="/authors/scott-reyburn">Scott Reyburn</a></span></span></div></div></div><div class="relative w-full max-w-col-5 before:absolute before:top-0 before:left-0 before:w-full before:h-px mb-2xl flex flex-col sm:max-w-col-1"><div class="w-full mb-md"><a class="cursor-pointer" href="/2024/02/02/old-master-sale-recap-new-york"><div class="overflow-hidden pointer-events-none"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="208" height="156" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="transform-gpu transition-transform hover:scale-110 duration-1000 ease-out pointer-events-auto" style="color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 208 156'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' 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leading-tight tracking-loose text-gray-700">2 February 2024</span></span><a class="block text-gray-800 hover:text-red-900 transition-colors duration-default cursor-pointer mb-md" href="/2024/02/02/old-master-sale-recap-new-york"><h4 class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl font-text-narrow-medium font-medium text-lg sm:text-base leading-tight tracking-loose">New York Old Master sales deliver tepid results at Christie's and Sotheby's </h4></a><div class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl last:mb-0 mb-sm"><div class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl empty:hidden last:mb-0 mb-xl"><p class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-snug text-gray-700 w-full max-w-col-2-xl">Scattered seven-figure highlights failed to make up for dozens of passed lots and multiple key withdrawals</p></div><div class="leading-none mb-sm last:mb-0"><span class="text-gray-700 font-sans-regular font-normal text-sm sm:text-xs leading-tight whitespace-nowrap"><span class="whitespace-normal"><a class="font-sans-bold font-bold shadow-link transition-all duration-default hover:shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900" href="/authors/judd-tully">Judd Tully</a></span></span></div></div></div><div class="relative w-full max-w-col-5 before:absolute before:top-0 before:left-0 before:w-full before:h-px mb-2xl flex flex-col sm:max-w-col-1"><div class="w-full mb-md"><a class="cursor-pointer" href="/2023/12/08/rediscovered-paintings-by-rembrandt-and-canaletto-fail-to-turbocharge-london-old-master-sales"><div class="overflow-hidden pointer-events-none"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="208" height="156" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="transform-gpu transition-transform hover:scale-110 duration-1000 ease-out pointer-events-auto" style="color:transparent;height:auto;width:100%;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 208 156'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' 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src="https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cxgd3urn/production/defa029395174e1029ea72b4407ca39d0b65c7c4-4494x2761.jpg?rect=407,0,3681,2761&w=640&h=480&q=85&fit=crop&auto=format"/></div></a></div><div class="mb-sm col-span-2 col-start-1 row-start-2"><div class="text-red-900 font-sans-bold font-bold text-sm sm:text-xs leading-tighter tracking-wide select-none"><div class="empty:hidden"><span class="mr-xs"><a class="hover:underline" href="/keywords/auctions">Auctions</a></span><span class="w-2 mr-xs inline-block mb-[-3px]"><svg class="" height="100%" width="100%" fill="currentColor" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet" viewBox="0 0 8 12" x="0px" y="0px"><g><path d="M1 10.168H1.336L3.88 1H3.556L1 10.168Z"></path><path d="M4.71484 10.168H5.05084L7.59484 1H7.27084L4.71484 10.168Z"></path></g></svg></span><span class="font-sans-regular font-normal capitalize">analysis</span></div></div></div><span class="inline-block mb-sm last:mb-0"><span class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-sm sm:text-xs leading-tight tracking-loose text-gray-700">8 December 2023</span></span><a class="block text-gray-800 hover:text-red-900 transition-colors duration-default cursor-pointer mb-md" href="/2023/12/08/rediscovered-paintings-by-rembrandt-and-canaletto-fail-to-turbocharge-london-old-master-sales"><h4 class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl font-text-narrow-medium font-medium text-lg sm:text-base leading-tight tracking-loose">Rediscovered paintings by Rembrandt and Canaletto fail to turbocharge London Old Master auctions</h4></a><div class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl last:mb-0 mb-sm"><div class="w-full max-w-col-2-xl empty:hidden last:mb-0 mb-xl"><p class="font-sans-regular font-normal text-base sm:text-sm leading-snug text-gray-700 w-full max-w-col-2-xl">Evening sales at Sotheby's and Christie's drew in £19.4m and £21.3m, respectively </p></div><div class="leading-none mb-sm last:mb-0"><span class="text-gray-700 font-sans-regular font-normal text-sm sm:text-xs leading-tight whitespace-nowrap"><span class="whitespace-normal"><a class="font-sans-bold font-bold shadow-link transition-all duration-default hover:shadow-internalLink hover:text-red-900" href="/authors/scott-reyburn">Scott Reyburn</a></span></span></div></div></div></div><script>$RS=function(a,b){a=document.getElementById(a);b=document.getElementById(b);for(a.parentNode.removeChild(a);a.firstChild;)b.parentNode.insertBefore(a.firstChild,b);b.parentNode.removeChild(b)};$RS("S:1","P:1")</script><script>$RC=function(b,c,e){c=document.getElementById(c);c.parentNode.removeChild(c);var a=document.getElementById(b);if(a){b=a.previousSibling;if(e)b.data="$!",a.setAttribute("data-dgst",e);else{e=b.parentNode;a=b.nextSibling;var f=0;do{if(a&&8===a.nodeType){var d=a.data;if("/$"===d)if(0===f)break;else f--;else"$"!==d&&"$?"!==d&&"$!"!==d||f++}d=a.nextSibling;e.removeChild(a);a=d}while(a);for(;c.firstChild;)e.insertBefore(c.firstChild,a);b.data="$"}b._reactRetry&&b._reactRetry()}};$RC("B:0","S:0")</script></body></html>