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'Enthralling' but 'contested': why Sotheby's $80m Botticelli continues to mystify experts

Sandro Botticelli s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel (around 1480) is set to break a record for the Old Master painter
PHOTO: JULIAN CASSADY PHOTOGRAPHY; COURTESY OF SOTHEBY’S
Sotheby’s sale this month of an arresting Botticelli portrait, owned by the late real estate billionaire Sheldon Solow, has been heavily publicised.
Yet, while
Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel (around 1480) is accompanied by the obligatory paraphernalia of X-ray and infra-red images, its many mysteries continue to confound trade and scholars alike.
And the estimate, in excess of $80m, has no precedent: works fully attributed to Botticelli rarely come up and the auction record for a painting by the artist is just $10.4m, set in 2013 by the “Rockefeller Madonna” (or ....

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