Rediscovered Rembrandt?: Bidders Pursue $800 Painting to $870,000
- September 23, 2015 12:00
A reader of Bendor Grosvenor's Art History News spotted a painting at Nye & Co.Auctioneers in New Jersey that on Tuesday soared beyond its estimate of $500-$800 to fetch $870,000.
Internet buzz ensued around the opinion that the work was by Dutch master Rembrandt, specifically portraying "smell" from his early "sense series." The auction catalog described the work as '19th C Continental School, Portrait with Lady Fainting'
Grosvenor wrote, "Still, $870,000 (or close to $1m with premium) is cheap for an early Rembrandt."
100x100_c.jpg "Paul Binnie (Scottish, b. 1967): A Hundred Shades of Ink of Edo: Hokusai's Waterfalls, woodblock print, 2006")
![Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.](/images/c/e2/2e/Jan20_Rape_of_Europa100x100_c.jpg "Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), After Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1488–1576), Rape of Europa, 1628–29. Oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 79 3/8 in.")
