Rembrandt’s “extraordinary rarity” works could fetch $10 million at auction

Two rediscovered works by Rembrandt, the last known pair of portraits by the Dutch master to remain in private hands, could fetch around $10 million at auction next week.

Signed and dated 1635, the depictions of the couple Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and Jaapgen Carels, who were close to the artist’s family, are estimated to cost between £5m and £8m (£6.35m to £10.16m). of pounds). ).

They were purchased at Christie’s by an ancestor of the current owners, who lives in the UK, almost 200 years ago.

“It is extraordinary that the paintings have remained virtually unknown for so long. Therefore, they have never been addressed in any of the vast amounts of Rembrandt literature over the years,” said Henry Pettifer, vice president of International Old Master Paintings. at Christie’s, he told Reuters on Friday.

“These are things of extraordinary rarity,” he said, adding that the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has analyzed the paintings.

The portraits are among the highlights of Christie’s “Old Masters Sale Part I” on July 6, part of the auction house’s Classic Week.

Also on offer is a panel by Greek-born Spanish Renaissance painter El Greco, ‘The Entombment of Christ’ (estimated at £6-8m) and a bust of Helen of Troy by neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (estimated at £2 million, 0.5 million and 4 million pounds).

Source: Terra

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