Colnaghi gallery to lead research into €1,500 painting now believed to be by Caravaggio
Colnaghi will take on the further research of this painting, believed by some to be by Caravaggio Courtesy of Ansorena One of the world’s oldest commercial galleries, Colnaghi, will oversee the restoration, authentication and subsequent sale of a painting withdrawn from auction in Madrid earlier this month which some Old Master specialists say could be by the 16th-century artist Caravaggio. The work, entitled The Crowning of Thorns, was due to be sold at Ansorena auction house on 8 April with a guide price of just €1,500. According to El País, the painting is owned...
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