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Sotheby’s Sets Record for Botticelli Drawing

July 10, 2014 by Marion Maneker

Lot 27, Botticelli - Study for a seated St. Joseph, cropped

Sotheby’s has a lot to crow about from tonight’s Old Master sale that was the highest Evening sale total ever:

Moments ago in Sotheby’s London salesroom, the only drawing by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) to have come to auction since the 19th century, Study for a Seated St. Joseph, his head resting on his right hand sold for a record £1,314,500 ($2,252,922 / €1,652,332) (est. £1-1.5 million / $1.7-2.5 million / €1.2-1.8 million). This is the highest price ever paid for a work on paper by the great Renaissance Master at auction.

 

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