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  • ANOTHER BOTTICELLI AT SOTHEBY’S

    Sandro Botticelli – The Man of Sorrows  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $45.5 MILLION

    One of the last great Botticelli masterpieces in private hands will come up at Sotheby’s in New York next January during Masters Week. The Man of Sorrows – which portrays the resurrected Christ – is a late work produced at a time when the artist had come under the influence of fanatical Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola. It has an estimate of in excess of $40 million. It comes to market following the record-breaking sale of Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel at Sotheby’s last January. It made $92.2 million.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for January 28, 2021)

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