Botticelli Portrait Sells for $92.2 Million, Setting New Record
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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 auction is any indication, the proceeds from the sale of the portrait might end up funding the museum. That’s because “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” sold for $92.2 million at a Sotheby’s auction last week.