“Titian’s previous auction record was $16.9 million for A Sacra Conversazione (c.1560), which was sold in 2011 by Sotheby’s New York.”
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“The rare early Titian “Rest On The Flight Into Egypt” (c. 1508) is a remarkable painting for several reasons, but chief among them is its soaring artistic and historical merit as a kind of compass bearing true north at the beginning of the long, illustrious narrative of its painter, Tiziano Vecellio.”
““This result is a tribute to the impeccable provenance and quiet beauty of this sublime early masterpiece by Titian, which is one of the most poetic products of the artist’s youth,” Orlando Rock, chairman of Christie’s U.K., said in a statement.”
““The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” by the Venetian artist Titian, was stolen from its owner’s home in 1995 and recovered seven years later by an art detective.”
“The famed painting, completed around 1502, was the highest-priced piece to be sold at the auction and set a record for any work by Titian, Christie’s said.”
“The artist’s previous record of $16.9 million was set in the 2011 sale of A Sacra Conversazione: The Madonna and Child with Saints Luke and Catherine of Alexandria at Sotheby’s New York.”
“A stolen painting found in a plastic bag at a London bus stop just sold for $22 million.”
“The Venetian master’s exquisite early depiction of the Holy Family, once recovered in a bag at a bus-stop seven years after being stolen from Longleat House, is estimated to fetch £15m-£25m in London sale”
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