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Colnaghi will take on the further research of this painting, believed by some to be by Caravaggio Courtesy of Ansorena
One of the world’s oldest commercial galleries, Colnaghi, will oversee the restoration, authentication and subsequent sale of a painting withdrawn from auction in Madrid earlier this month which some Old Master specialists say could be by the 16th-century artist Caravaggio.
The work, entitled
The Crowning of Thorns, was due to be sold at Ansorena auction house on 8 April with a guide price of just €1,500. According to El País, the painting is owned by the three children of Antonio Pérez de Castro, founder of Madrid’s IADE design school, and the artist Mercedes Méndez Atard.
It took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid earlier this month with a guide price of â¬1,500 could be worth millions.
At 9.48pm on March 24th, Pulini, a 63-year-old professor at Bologna Fine Arts Academy, received an email request for an evaluation. Sent by an antiques dealer and friend of Puliniâs, it included a photo of a luminous oil painting of the scourged Christ.
At 9.54pm, Pulini sent a reply that would echo across the art world: âDamn! This is a Caravaggio! Where the hell did you find it?â
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