Highlights from Sotheby's Upcoming Old Master Sales On View in New York from 3-5 November
From 3 – 5 November 2012, Sotheby’s New York will exhibit highlights from the upcoming London and New York sales of Old Master Paintings and Drawings at its York Avenue headquarters. The exhibition will include works by many of the key artists in the field, spanning the 14th through 19th century including Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, Jan Steen, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Joseph Mallord William Turner and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, among others. Select highlights will also travel to Chicago, Los Angeles, London and Hong Kong throughout the autumn season.
Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings Including Three Renaissance Masterworks from Chatsworth – 5 December 2012, London
The New York exhibition will also feature three Renaissance masterworks from the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth - one of the greatest drawings by Raphael remaining in private hands, and two 15th-century illuminated manuscripts which rank among the finest examples of their kind ever to come to auction. Executed in black chalk, Raphael’s Head of an Apostle, c.1519-20, (est. $16.25/24.38 million, above) is a highly important drawing within the artist’s oeuvre: an extremely refined study for one of the key figures in the Transfiguration, one of the greatest of all Renaissance paintings, which now hangs in the Vatican Museum in Rome.
Important Old Master Paintings – 31 January 2013, New York
The highlights exhibition will include Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes’s Portrait of Mariano Goya, one of the last – if not the very last – of the artist’s portraits, painted during his final trip to Madrid between July and September 1827 (est. $6/8 million, pictured on page 1). Executed in the artist’s signature manner, the portrait depicts Goya’s beloved grandson and heir, Mariano, then aged twenty one. Following his dark and gruesome “Black Paintings,” this portrait of a dear family member represents a return to a softer and more psychologically touching approach to figure painting. The present masterpiece has been in the current owners’ collection since 1954 and has been out of the public eye for almost 60 years. This painting comes from the estate of Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos.
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