Yesterday’s Sotheby’s sold Perino Del Vaga’s drawing of “Jupiter and Juno Reclining” for a record price of $782,500 to the Metropolitan Museum of art.
Today, Sotheby’s scored again with the Met, according to Carol Vogel. The museum paid $2.098m for the artist’s Holy Family with John the Baptist which had been estimated for a tenth of that amount:
[...] at the recent reattribution of Velazquez’s “Phillip IV” at the Met, or their acquisition of the Perino del Vaga’s at Sotheby’s this year (the painting’s attribution was the subject for d… There are constantly disputes, in some cases you have owners holding on to works, waiting for the [...]
[...] at the recent reattribution of Velazquez’s “Phillip IV” at the Met, or their acquisition of the Perino del Vaga’s at Sotheby’s this year (the painting’s attribution was the subject for d… There are constantly disputes, in some cases you have owners holding on to works, waiting for the [...]