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Donatello Relief Brings In Over $4 Million

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Another prized auction item failed to meet top estimates this week. This time we head to Sotheby's to check out the results of the Important Old Master Paintings Auction. Although the Donatello relief we mentioned earlier, isn't a painting it was still a part of the auction. The rare item was expected to bring in up to $6 million but actually brought in $4.4 million. Top honors at the auction went to the Jan Van Huysum painting shown here which sold for $7.296 million. The painting is considered a masterpiece of the Dutch still life and the artist was the greatest Dutch flower painter of the 18th Century.

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Rare Donatello Relief Goes Up For Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

The loss of an Italian church may be your gain if you have a few million dollars. The Independent reports that the parishioners of San Giovanni Battista Church in Padua sold a terracotta relief of the Madonna and Child in 1902 in order to pay for a new organ. The piece is now going up for auction at Sotheby's in New York on January 26 and is expected to sell for up to $6 million. The piece was so covered in stucco and paint that the last time it came up for auction in 1990 it didn't sell. A recent cleaning and new research however assured the fact that it is definitely a Donatello, making it extremely valuable since there is only one Donatello in a public collection in the U.S.

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