Rediscovered Rembrandt Goes From New Jersey Basement to Getty Exhibition
- May 06, 2016 14:36
A tiny, discolored painting found by auctioneer John Nye of Nye & Co. in the basement of New Jersey home turned out to be worth far more than its $500 - $800 estimate. Art blogger Bendor Grosvenor first noted the possible significance of the work up for sale.
Reports the Los Angeles Times, the painting "would become the talk of the international art world after it was judged to be a long-lost work by the 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn." In fact, it is a very early work, "The Unconscious Patient (An Allegory of the Sense of Smell)," 1624, from the master's Senses series, and painted in his teengage years.
A pair of Paris art dealers won the painting after a bidding battle and were immediately approached by New York financier Thomas Kaplan and his wife, Daphne, who own The Leiden Collection.
The Leiden Collection, one of the best private assemblages of Dutch Golden Age art, is loaning the work for a reunion of Rembrandt’s Senses series, shown alongside other paintings by Rembrandt, at the Getty Center from May 11 to August 28, 2016, in The Promise of Youth: Rembrandt’s Senses Rediscovered.
Read more at Los Angeles Times
