Sotheby's - Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York - 26 January 2012
Sotheby’s annual auction of Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture in New York will take place on 26 January 2012. The morning session of Important Old Master Paintings will offer strong examples across a wide range of styles and genres, from early Italian pictures to Italian Baroque, French Rococo, Dutch 17th century and Italian view paintings, while the afternoon session of Old Master Paintings & Sculpture will feature a selection of sculpture by artists including Andrea Della Robbia, Agnolo di Polo and Louis François Roubiliac. The auction will be on exhibition in Sotheby’s York Avenue galleries beginning 21 January, alongside the Old Masters Week sales.
As previously announced, the morning session will be highlighted by three works from the estate of Lady Forte, whose husband Charles Forte founded the global hotel and restaurant group Trusthouse Forte. The group will be led by Canaletto’sVenice, a View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo, with a Moored Man-of-War, Gondolas and Barges, painted between 1747 and 1755 (est. $5/7 million). The canvas was originally conceived as one of a pair, which was sold at Sotheby’s along with its pendant – now in a private collection – in 1960.
