A portray attributed to the Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt went beneath the hammer for a record-breaking $1.175 million ($1.41 million together with the customer’s premium) after it was unearthed from an attic in a house in Camden, Maine. The sale was held by Thomaston Place Public sale Galleries in the course of the second day of its Summer season Grandeur public sale on August 26.
The portray was recovered throughout a routine home name for the public sale home, reportedly found with no floor injury and in exceptional situation contemplating its age. It was famous to have a longtime household provenance as effectively.
“Portrait of a Girl,” oil on cradled oak panel, unsigned, label verso from the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork, lent for a 1970 exhibition; in a hand-carved Dutch gold body, 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (~51.1 x 41.9 cm)
“I’ve been doing this for 53 years, making these house calls across New England, and we’ve never come across a find like this,” mentioned Thomaston Place Public sale Galleries Founder and Appraiser Kaja Veilleux in a telephone name with Hyperallergic.
“We were invited to an old farmhouse in Camden to go through a private estate and pick out what was valuable, and we went through every floor before coming across this painting,” he continued.
Depicting a teenage woman in black clothes with a white ruff round her neck and a translucent bonnet protecting her hair, the portray was completed on cradled oak panel and accompanied by a hand-carved Dutch body with a golden sheen. Although it was unsigned, the portray has a label on the again of its body attributing the work to Rembrandt and indicating that it had been on mortgage to the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork for an exhibition in 1970.
Veilleux advised Hyperallergic {that a} fierce bidding struggle ensued between 9 callers over the telephone, pushing six-figure gives for the portray greater and better. The work finally landed up with a non-public collector from England, changing into what the public sale home says could also be the costliest art work ever bought publicly in Maine.
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