OMNP previews today’s auction of affordable Old Master paintings at Christie’s Milan. The drawbacks of the Italian Old Master market also reveal its strengths-while export restrictions keep this market rather tame-the sheer richness of available material within its borders still allows for many quality works by lesser known painters to come to the block.
Lot 76: Benedetto Gennari, “Penitent Magdalene.”
The Lempicka-eque quality of this piece by a minor artist from the School of Bologna would make its modest estimate $25-30k USD all the more appealing to the modern art collector.
Lot 27
Orazio Samacchini (Bologna 1532-1577)
Lapidazione di Santo Stefano
oil on canvas
140 x 107 cm.
Estimate: €30,000 – €50,000 ($38,048 – $63,413)
Lot 28
Scuola lombarda, secolo XVII
L’educazione della Vergine
olio su tela
141 x 106 cm.
Estimate: €5,000 – €7,000 ($6,341 – $8,878)
Lot 69
Heinrich Anton Heger (Hadersleben 1832-1888 Monaco)
Interno di palazzo seicentesco
olio su tavola
45 x 61.5 cm.
Estimate: €4,000 – €6,000
($5,073 – $7,610)
Lot 76
Benedetto Gennari (Cento 1633-1715 Bologna)
Maddalena penitente
oil on canvas
75 x 62 cm.
Estimate: €20,000 – €25,000
($25,365 – $31,706)
Lot 84
Pier Francesco Mola (Coldrerio 1612-1666 Roma)
Ritratto di Alessandro VII Chigi
oil on canvas, entro cornice ‘Salvator Rosa’ a tre ordini di intaglio
119 x 95 cm.
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