On 28 June 2019, Schuler Auktionen in Zurich offered a small Florentine portrait of a young man with an estimate of just CHF 5,000-7,000. The auction house explicitly did not…
A 19th-century still life ‘in the manner of’ Edwaert Collier, estimated at €300-500, brought €30,000 on 5 September. A small copper work after Bartholomeus Breenbergh rose from €400-600 to €9,000…
Anyone researching a painting by Roelant Savery will almost inevitably encounter Kurt J. Müllenmeister’s critical catalogue raisonné of 1988 and its 1991 supplement. Yet recent auctions show why simply finding…
For the paintings of Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (c. 1500-1559), there is no modern catalogue raisonné. Yet the international art market follows a consistent pattern in which Friedländer, Horn, expert opinions…
It initially looked like a modest Old Master lot in the forthcoming sale of the Gerolamo Etro collection: a large eighteenth-century portrait of a man, attributed to an anonymous Central…
On 15 September, Artcurial in Paris will offer a small oak panel depicting a hunting scene as attribué à Roelandt Savery. The estimate is just €3,000-4,000. More interesting than the…
More than thirty years after its publication, Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny’s catalogue raisonné of Jacob and Abel Grimmer continues to appear with striking regularity in auction catalogues. Sometimes it…
Buying a painting at a regional auction, researching it, cataloguing it more accurately and subsequently offering it to a broader audience. It is the classic way of working in the…
In early September, Catawiki is offering an unsigned Ecce Homo on panel as “Circle of Carlo Dolci,” with an estimated value of €1,600–2,000. The visible quality is striking, but something…
A panel measuring just 21.5 by 17.5 centimetres, cautiously catalogued by Hargesheimer as “probably workshop or school” of Rembrandt and possibly a self-portrait, has already attracted considerable bidding ahead of…