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Two paintings by Pietro Lorenzetti, an artist as rare as he was a major figure in the gold-ground painting of the Sienese School of the early 14th cen
A painting depicting Pope Sylvester I made €3m, while a portrayal of Saint Helena more than doubled its high estimate, selling for €1.6m
The last two known paintings by 14th-century Sienese master painter Pietro Lorenzetti will come to auction at Parisian auctioneer Tajan.
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The French government gave the museum 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the Cimabue painting
How a widow’s legal fight against the Wildenstein family of France has threatened their storied collection — and revealed the underbelly of the global art market.