€1500 Caravaggio Found In Madrid Auction House
Old Master dealers Colnaghi gallery have agreed to coordinate the scholarly assessment, scientific analysis, and restoration of an Ecce Homo painting thought to be by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
The work, titled The Crowning of Thorns, was due to go under the hammer at Ansorena auction house on 8 April with a guide price of €1,500. The painting is owned by the three children of Antonio Pérez de Castro, founder of Madrid’s IADE design school.
The oil on canvas depicting Christ being crowned with thorns was initially attributed to the “circle” of the 17th-century Spanish painter José de Ribera. The painting, which has been in the family of the Pé rez de Castro Méndez for centuries, was set to be sold at auction in Madrid before the family was alerted of its possible reattribution. The family subsequently withdrew the work from auction. The Ministry of Culture has issued an exportation block of the painting from S
What I Buy and Why: Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall on Collecting Art in North Dakota and the One Work Everyone Tries to Sit On
The couple also reveals which young artists they covet most.
Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall.
In the handful of years since collectors Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall purchased their first artwork in 2016 (which they discovered here), the couple has assembled a covetable and trendsetting collection of Surrealism-inspired contemporary art by primarily women-identifying and queer artists.
A surgeon and a political theory professor who live in the tiny town Minot, North Dakota, the couple are far from your typical urban-dwelling, finance-industry art buyers. They decided to give the pursuit a shot after seeing a David Hockney retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco on their honeymoon.