snKxm7t3cb- Christie's 16 novembre 2017Īccording to some, the painting could date back to around 1500. If that is true, she said that there are five other panels out there, somewhere.Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Salvator Mundi achieves $450,312,500, a #worldauctionrecord for any work of art sold at auction. The painting was in the family long enough that she doesn’t know anything of its origins, including how it ended up in their possession.Ī historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Joanna Cannon told the Telegraph that the rediscovered trio may have been a part of the left-wing of the altarpiece that was cut and sold late in the 18th or early in the 19th century. One art historian at the Tulane University, Holly Flora says that he should “be appreciated for his own inventiveness and not just as a prelude to Giotto.”Īngelique Chrisafis of the Guardian said that the French woman who owns the panel assumed that it was just a religious icon of no real importance. Although he was the teacher, his pupil often takes the spotlight. He is perhaps best known as being Giotto’s teacher but he is also the first artist that was highlighted in Giorgio Vasari’s biography of Italian artists. He emphasized that older paintings such as this one “is and always has been fraught with peril.” After all, it could be possible that the work was made by one of Cimabue’s followers or perhaps a painter from another region.Ĭimabue was born around 1240 in Cenni di Pepo. He is concerned that the painting is ‘being boldly called a Cimabue without wider discussion’, according to the Guardian. Jonathan Jones, who is an art critic tends to go about the issue with a little more caution. One art specialist at Cabinet Turquin, Jerome Montcouquil, told Jack Guy and Saskya Vandoorne from CNN that the team could “follow the grain of the wood through the different scenes.” He adds, “We also used infrared light to be sure the painting was done by the same hand. Some of the other factors that proved the painting’s provenance include the gold background, frame fragments, and the style. They called in an expert who recognised it as the third small Cimabue from that sadly dismantled altarpiece. She took it to a local auction house, thinking it was an icon. It hung in the house of a lady in Compiègne. Now a third has emerged, depicting the Mocking of Christ. “You can follow the tunnels made by the worms,” Turquin says. All three of the pieces have similar wormhole patterns. Some of the evidence that had supported the genuineness of this painting were tracks left centuries ago by wood-gnawing larvae. Scott Reyburn of the Art Newspaper had the opportunity to speak with Turquin. Only two other sections of this work are known to survive, ‘ The Flagellation of Christ‘, which was purchased in 1950 and ‘ The Virgin and Child With Two Angels‘, which is now on display by the National Gallery in London. Researchers feel that the Old Master created the painting around 1280. 📸 "The Mocking of Christ" by late 13th century Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo, also known as Cimabue /oc3pRnFQk6 Old French lady discovers painting in her kitchen is Renaissance masterpiece – estimated to be worth between $4.3 million and $6.6 million Benjamin Dodman of France 24 reported that Turquin and his colleagues concluded with ‘certitude’ that the new find was a Cimabue. He was responsible for identifying a painting that was found in a French attic as being a long-lost Caravaggio. She thought that it may have been a work of Italian primitivism right away but she ‘didn’t imagine it was a Cimabue.’Ī Paris-based art historian, Eric Turquin then got involved. The painting, entitled ‘Christ Mocked’ was spotted by Wolf on display between the living room and kitchen. … if I didn’t, then everything was due to go to the dump.” “I had a week to give an expert view on the house contents and empty it,” Wolf tells Julien. Panel depicting the Mocking of Christ will go on sale at French auction house, in collaboration with Eric Turquin, in October He found the painting while clearing out a client’s home in Compiègne according to Elie Julien of Le Parisien.
He expected that it would sell for about $6 million when it went on auction on October 27. Philomène Wolf is an auctioneer who happened to find the religious scene. As it turns out, it appears to be a long-forgotten work by Cimabue, an early Renaissance master and Florentine artist. It was a small panel painting that was hanging above a hotplate. The wall in an elderly French woman’s kitchen became the scene of a phenomenal discovery.
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