Please join Sotheby's and author John Brewer as he discusses The American Leonardo, Monday 25 January
Peachy Deegan just loves Sotheby's!
Please join Sotheby’s
and author John Brewer
as he discusses his recent book
The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money,
named as one of The Daily Beast’s best art books of 2009.
Monday 25 January 2010
6:30pm lecture
7:30pm book signing
To attend, please call the press office at +1 212.606.7176
On 28 January Sotheby’s will offer a painting that has been at the center of one of the art world’s most heated debates for over eighty years:Portrait of a Woman, Called “La Belle Ferronnière” by a Follower of Leonardo da Vinci (est. $300/500,000). Depicting a lady in three-quarters profile, the portrait is another version of a composition in the Louvre, now believed to be by either Leonardo or one of his pupils, depicting Lucrezia Crivelli, a mistress of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. Since the widely publicized 1929 slander trial of the art world’s foremost international expert, Sir Joseph Duveen, La Belle Ferronnière’s attribution has been fiercely contested, raising questions of connoisseurship, authenticity, and the role of science in art history in the 21st Century.