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Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sotheby’s auction
A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has sold at auction for $120 million, a record for the Renaissance master.
Key points:
- The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of only about a dozen of Botticelli’s portraits known to have survived
- Sotheby’s said it was one of the most significant portraits of any period ever to appear at auction
- It was last purchased for $1.7 million at a 1982 auction in the United Kingdom
The work titled Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of roughly a dozen of his portraits known to survive today.
Sandro Botticelli’s large-scale Birth of Venus and Primavera paintings are displayed in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.
Sotheby’s said it was one of the most significant portraits of any period ever to appear at auction…
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