Modern Renaissance at Sotheby's
March 15 2021
Picture: Sotheby's
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Sotheby's London have published the lots of their upcoming cross-category sale entitled Modern Renaissance. The sale will be held on 25th March 2021.
The sale is packed with many twentieth century works, with practically all the big names represented. Of particular interest are two works by Edvard Munch. Firstly, Summer Day or Embrace on the Beach (The Linde Frieze), painted in 1904 which carries a £9m - £12m estimate. Secondly, a 1926 self-portrait of the artist, estimated at £4.5m - £6.5m. Picasso is also well represented in the sale, with a 1941 Seated Portrait of a Lady being the most expensive example estimated at £6.5m - £8.5m.
Only two paintings are represented on the old masters front, a reduction compared to last summer's Rembrandt to Richter sale. Alongside Piero del Pollaiuolo's Portrait of a Youth, estimated at £4m - £6m, is a recently upgraded portrait by Giulio Romano (pictured). This head and shoulders portrait of a Lady had sold at the Dorotheum, Vienna, in 2000 where it was attributed to Bronzino. It has since been endorsed as a original work by Romano by two Italian scholars. The work will carry an estimate of £300k - £500k.
