Bargain of the week? (ctd.)
June 22 2015
Picture: BG
Here's one for my sadly rather long 'ones that got away' list... Regular readers may remember that last year I underbid a possible 'sleeper' which, for me, was way 'off piste', but which I nonetheless liked very much; a possible Goya. The picture had long been accepted as Goya's copy of Velasquez' famous portrait of Innocent X, but was lately doubted (as indeed are so many Goyas).
Anyway, I had the chance to see the picture again the other day - after it had been given a light clean - and I was personally more convinced by it than ever before. At £37k, something of a bargain. Still, onto the next.
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