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Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sotheby's auction Posted ThuThursday 28 JanJanuary 2021 at 11:02pm The painting's 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 Botticelli's portraits known to have survived Sotheby's said it was one of the most significant portra...

Botticelli Painting Sells For $92 Million At Auction In New York City NEW YORK (AP) — 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. 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 known for “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera.” “This is not only an exceptional painting, it is also the epitome of beauty, and of a moment when so much of o...

Portrait by Renaissance master sells for $92 million in New York The painting is one of just three Sandro Botticelli portraits in private hands by the artist best known for “The Birth of Venus" and “Primavera.” Author: Associated Press Updated: 4:18 AM EST January 29, 2021 NEW YORK — Editor's Note: The video above is from August 2020. 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. The work, “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” from about 1475, depicts a you...

The sale could boost the reputation and prices for Old Master paintings at a time when the art world is focused on post-war and contemporary artists.

Botticelli fetches over $92 mn at auction Record for Great Masters at Sotheby's in NYC 28 Gennaio 2021 NEW YORK, JAN 28 - A are masterpiece by Renaissance great Sandro Botticelli, 'Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel', fetched over $92 million at Sotheby's in New York on Thursday, far exceeding estimates. It was a record for the auction house's Great Masters series. The painting was pout up for auction by the family of late billionaire Sheldon Solow, one of the great builders of New York skyscrapers, who died in November. The painting fetched $92.184 million, including auction rights. (...