Botticelli’s masterpiece sold for $ 10.4 million
Botticelli’s masterpiece sold for $ 10.4 million
Sometimes, painting by Florentine Botticelli “Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John”, called the Rockefeller Madonna. It’s because the painting was for 50 years in the collection of the Rockefeller family. The masterpiece by Botticelli – sold for $ 10.4 million at Christie’s on January 30, 2013. In the Rockefeller family it was from the 1930’s, and then kept in a private New York collection. Organizers had hoped for its trades $ -7 million, but the final cost considerably surpassed appraisal painting. Among other precious lots – 51 paintings, including masterpieces by FRA Bartolomeo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Lucas Cranach the younger. Also, Claude Lorrain, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Thomas Gainsborough, Theodore Gericault and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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