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The Best Photos of the Day January 25, Botticelli Portrait, Master Week Auction Paintings
Jan 28 News. Botticelli Portrait Goes for $92 M., Becoming Second-Most Expensive Old Masters Work Ever Auctioned. from Artnews.com
Celebrating master painters. For art lovers.
Sotheby's 2021 Masters Week.
Auction online 28–29 January.
2021 Masters Week in New York offers seven sales of paintings, drawings, and sculpture including important works from a single-owner collection formed by Dr. John O’Brien and Hester Diamond.
These amazing paintings catch my eyes and I have to do something…
Frans Pourbus the Elder
Bruges, 1545 — Antwerp, 19 September 1581.
He was a Flemish Renaissance painter who is known for his portraits and religious compositions, as well as a few genre scenes. Wikipedia.
A Sotheby’s art handler stands beside Frans Pourbus the Elder’s “Portrait of a young woman, aged 17, holding a small spaniel wearing a collar of bells”
