Sleeper alert!
June 11 2015
Picture: Rossini
The above still life made some waves in Paris last week. It was catalogued as:
Attributed to Giovanni Battista RUOPPOLO(1629-1693)
Nature Morte aux cédrats, oranges, asperges et artichauts
Copper 40 x 55 cm
collection de l’Infant don Luis de Borbon,
Estimate: 30 000 / 40 000 €
And sold for €800,000 hammer. I'm told by a sleuthing reader that it might be by Luca Forte (c.1617-c.1670).
Apparently, it took 15 minutes for the auction house to line up all the phone bids before the lot came up. That's the point that meagre and frugal sleeper-hunters like me think about hanging up. If you bought it, congrats!
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