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Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92.2 Million, Setting New Record Tobias Carroll, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In 1982, real estate developer Sheldon Solow bought the Botticelli portrait “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $1.3 million. Much has changed in the years since then in the art world; Solow himself died last November. As for the Botticelli painting? The fate of Solow’s vast art collection was, until recently the subject of heated debate. Would it be auctioned off ...

One of the last privately owned Botticelli portraits has sold for over $92 million By Oscar Holland, CNN | Jacqui Palumbo, CNN and Lily Smith, CNN Published Jan 30, 2021 1:32:36 PM enablePagination: false endIndex: (CNN) — One of the last Sandro Botticelli portraits left in private hands sold at auction for more than $92 million at Sothebys New York on Thursday. The 15th-century painting "Young Man Holding a Roundel" became the most expensive work by the Renaissance artist ever to appear at...

Sandro Botticellis Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel, (c. 1444/5 – 1510) at Sothebys New York. Courtesy of Sothebys. A rare-to-market 15th-century masterwork by the Florentine super-star painter Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel from circa 1480, led Sotheby’s live-streamed Master paintings and sculpture sale on Thursday morning for a record $92.2 million. Bidding opened at an eye-popping $70 million and chugged along with the help of chandelier bids at ...

Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sothebys auction Posted ThuThursday 28 JanJanuary 2021 at 11:02pm The paintings former owner was the late real estate billionaire Sheldon Solow who bought it at an auction in 1982. ( Share Print text only Cancel A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has sold at auction for $120 million, a record for the Renaissance master. Key points: The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of only about a dozen of Bott...

Sandro Botticelli's painting "Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel" sold for $92.2 million on Thursday.

Sandro Botticelli's painting "Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel" sold for $92.2 million on Thursday.

The jewellery brand Bulgari sponsored Sothebys Old Masters sales series this week Courtesy of Sothebys Surely the most remarkable aspect of Sotheby’s successful Old Master sale in New York yesterday was not the respectable $92m (with fees) they managed to realise for a Botticelli sold for only $1.3m in 1982, but the triumph of marketing that the event represented. The auction itself was billed as the highlight of a week of sales of classic art presented in partnership with...

Nina Poon When philanthropists Al and Kate Tylis purchased an apartment in a Robert A.M. Stern–designed building on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, they noticed that most of their neighbors had taken a traditional approach to their decor. But the Tylises wanted something different: a contemporary space—warm and modern—to complement Stern’s bold, classical gestures and soaring ceilings. Their search for an interior designer with a fresh sensibility led them to Samuel Amoia, who began his car...

Rare Botticelli portrait sells for record $92.2m Reuters, New York Reuters, New York A rare Botticelli portrait sold for $92.2 million at auction at Sothebys in New York on Thursday, a world record for any work by the Italian artist. The Renaissance artists "Young Man Holding a Roundel" is one of only around a dozen of his portraits known to survive today. Sandro Botticellis large-scale "Birth of Venus" and "Primavera" paintings are displayed in Flo...

A painting by Sandro Botticellihas sold at auction for $92m, a record for the artist and the second-highest price ever fetched for an Old Master under the hammer (after Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, which went for $450m in 2017). Young Man Holding a Roundel, which is dated to c. 1480, is one of just a dozen or so surviving portraits by the Florentine artist. It was sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday evening. The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for renovations for three years fr...