ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI (ROME 1593 – AFTER 1654 NAPLES) – Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria. CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2026
There was a new world record for Artemisia Gentileschi at Christie’s Old Master’s sale in New York last night. Self Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria made $5,687,000 in an auction that brought in $54,130,050, the highest total for an Old Master’s auction in New York for over a decade. The auction was 118 percent sold hammer and buyer’s premium against low estimate and 84 percent by lot. Among the notable results were Canaletto’s view of the Venetian Lagoon during a well-known annual celebration, Venice, the Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day, which made $30,535,000. This result follows on the heels of Christie’s sale in London on 1 July, 2025 when the auction house set a world record for a Canaletto with a different version of the same view, which made GBP 31,935,000 ($43,851,545).
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for July 1, 2025 and January 10, 2026)