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Sotheby's annual Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture auction 2012
The Sotheby's annual auction of Important Old Master Paintings and Sculptures will be heading to New York for 2012. Featuring paintings from the estate of Lady Forte, the auction will take place on the 26th January 2012 at Sotheby's New York York Avenue galleries.
The auction day will feature paintings in the morning session, followed by sculpture in the afternoon. This will include early Italian and Italian Baroque, French Rococo and Dutch 17th century paintings in the morning and sculpture from Andrea Della Robbia, Agnolo di Polo and Louis François Roubiliac in the afternoon.
Paintings include Canaletto's Venice, a View of the Churches of the Redentore and San Giacomo, with a Moored Man-of-War, Gondolas and Barges (1747-1755) which has been estimated between $5 and $7 million and Jan van Huysum's Still Life of Roses, Tulips, Peonies and Other Flowers in a Sculpted Stone Vase, together with a Bird’s Nest on a Stone Pedestal before a Niche (18th Century), estimated between $4 and $6 million, from Lady Forte's, as well as Simone Martini's 14th Century The Virgin Annunciate (est. $3/$4 million) and Lucretia by German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, estimated at $4/$6 million.
Sculpture at Sotheby's annual Important Old Master Paintings & Sculpture auction 2012 will see An Italian Terracotta Bust of a Bishop Saint, one of Agnelo di Polo's few surviving works going on sale with estimates in the region of $100/150,000.
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