A piece by an Italian master goes Cimabue on auction this weekend, found, as is so often the case, in an elderly woman’s French kitchen"Christ Mocked" by the late 13th century Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo also known as Cimabue, September 23 2019. Picture: AFP/PHILIPPE LOPEZA 13th-century painting by the Italian master Cimabue that goes on auction Sunday, after being discovered in a home in France, is among a handful of surprising discoveries that have thrilled the art world.
Estimated at €100m to €150m in value, it was due to be auctioned in France in June 2019. But two days before the sale it was snapped up by an anonymous foreign buyer.In 2016, a Dutch art dealer bought a portrait at a Christie’s auction in London that he was convinced was an authentic Rembrandt, even though it was listed in the catalogue as coming only from the master’s “circle”.
Six bought the piece for £137,000, far below what a real Rembrandt would fetch. On his return to Amsterdam, Six had the painting examined by other art historians, many of whom also believe it is a real Rembrandt.In 2014, Italian police recovered a painting by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin and another by his contemporary Pierre Bonnard from a pensioner, which were stolen from a house in London in 1970.
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