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Botticelli painting called Young Man Holding a Roundel sells for $120 million at Sotheby’s auction – ABC News
A small painting by Sandro Botticelli sells at auction for $120 million, a record for the Renaissance master and the second-highest price for any Old Master painting….
A small painting by Sandro Botticelli has sold at auction for $120 million, a record for the Renaissance master.
- 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…
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