Botticelli Sold for $45.4 Million at Sotheby’s Auction
A long-overlooked painting regarded for decades as the work of Sandro Botticelli’s studio assistants sold at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday for $45.4 million with fees, kick-starting this year’s cycle of headline-grabbing prices for trophy artworks at auction. Now billed as a “seminal masterpiece” by the Italian renaissance master, Botticelli’s tempera-on-panel “The Man of … Read more