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Botticelli masterpiece sells for US$92m at US auction | Life

Friday, 29 Jan 2021 08:08 AM MYT A worker at Sotheby s Auctions poses with Sandro Botticelli s ‘Young Man Holding a Roundel’ during a preview where it is expected to fetch in excess of US$80 million in Manhattan January 22, 2021. Reuters pic Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. NEW YORK, Jan 29 A portrait by Italian renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli sold for US$92 million (RM372 million) at an online Sotheby’s auction yesterday, smashing the record price for the artist. “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” believed to have been painted in the 1470s or 1480s, is considered one of Botticelli’s finest portraits and is the highlight of Sotheby’s Masters Week sale in New York.

Botticelli masterpiece sells for $92 million

Botticelli masterpiece sells for $92 million
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A Single Mega-Collector Went on a Big-Time Buying Spree to Power Sotheby s $114 Million Old Masters Auction

Sandro Botticelli s Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel, (c. 1444/5 – 1510) at Sotheby s New York. Courtesy of Sotheby s. A rare-to-market 15th-century masterwork by the Florentine super-star painter Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel from circa 1480, led Sotheby’s live-streamed Master paintings and sculpture sale on Thursday morning for a record $92.2 million. Bidding opened at an eye-popping $70 million and chugged along with the help of chandelier bids at $2 million dollar increments until a real one came in at $78 million, quickly followed by the winning $80 million hammer price. It went to an anonymous telephone bidder represented by Lilija Sitnika, Sotheby’s London-based senior client liaison working the Russia desk.

Portrait by Sandro Botticelli sells for £67m - a record for the artist - at online Sotheby s auction

Share The piece shows a man in his late teenage years with long golden hair sitting holding a disc featuring a bearded saint. The roundel, which depicts the saint with his right hand raised, is an original 14th-century artwork attributed to Sienese painter Bartolommeo Bulgarini. Art historians suspect the Botticelli depicts a nobleman proudly showing off the earlier artwork. Botticelli: The little barrel who painted The Birth of Venus  Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli Sandro Botticelli was born Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, the son of a tanner. He became known as Botticelli - which translates to little barrel - and was raised by his brother in Florence where he lived his entire life. 

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