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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 or, as Solow hoped, end up as part of a new museum? If a New York Timesarticle on the Botticelli au...

Friday, 29 Jan 2021 08:08 AM MYT A worker at Sotheby's Auctions poses with Sandro Botticelli's ‘Young Man Holding a Roundel’ during a preview where it is expected to fetch in excess of US$80 million in Manhattan January 22, 2021. — Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. NEW YORK, Jan 29 — A portrait by Italian renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli sold for US$92 million (RM372 million) at an online Sotheby’s auction yesterday, smashing the record price for the artist. “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” believed to have been pai...

AP Sandro Botticelli’s 15th-century painting called ‘Young Man Holding a Roundel’ is displayed at Sotheby’s, in New York.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. NEW YORK — A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $92.2 million, an auction record for the Renaissance master. The work, “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” from about 1475, depicts a young nobleman holding a round painting of a saint. It is one of just three portraits in private hands by the artist best know...

Sandro Botticelli's Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel, (c. 1444/5 – 1510) at Sotheby's New York. Courtesy of Sotheby's. 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 $2 million dollar increments until a real one came in at $78 million, quickly followed by the win...

NEW YORK - A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sold at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday for $92.2 million, an auction record for the Renaissance master.T