New Moroni discovery at the RA

November 4 2014

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Picture: Camilla McCulloch

The new Moroni exhibition at the Royal Academy in London is winning praise from the critics: here's Richard Dorment in The Telegraph giving it 4 stars out of 5; and here's Jonathan Jones in The Guardian doing likewise. 

Meanwhile, sleuthing art dealer Rohan McCulloch alerts me to the fact that the above exhibit is a new Moroni discovery, having surfaced in a regional English auction last year as 'Italian School'. Rohan underbid it. I missed it completely. So congratulations to the buyer; going from sleeper to major museum exhibition in one year is an impressive feat.

Update - another sleuthing reader also spotted the picture, and sends this photo of it at the sale:

I seem to be the only person who didn't see it!


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