Fingerprint points to $19,000 portrait being revalued as £100m work by Leonardo da Vinci

Antiques Trade Gazette ^ | October 12, 2009 | Simon Hewitt

[Stoat]

Also, from the UK's Daily Mail:

New Leonardo da Vinci portrait discovered as it's matched to artist's fingerprint Mail Online

£100m surprise: Experts believe the fingerprint found in the top left hand corner of the painting, previously billed as 'German, early 19thC', could be that of Leonardo da Vinci's
 

 

The picture was sold at Christie's in New York in 1998, in an Old Master Drawings sale as a Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress - catalogued as 'German, early 19th century', with an estimate of 12,000 to 16,000 dollars.

It went under the hammer for 19,000 dollars and was later sold for a similar sum to a Canadian-born connoisseur, Peter Silverman, in 2007.

Mr Silverman believed that there was more to the portrait and started to look into the matter after a discussion last year with Dr Nicholas Turner, formerly Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum.

The portrait is due to go on display in an exhibition in Sweden next year.


 

 

[Stoat]

“....the first major Leonardo Da Vinci find for 100 years”

[Stoat]

“thought you might be interested” ping :-)

[Daffynition]

Guess this one didn't pan out.

[Stoat]

Live rates at 2009.10.13 09:05:18 UTC
100,000,000.00 GBP	=	157,275,754.50 USD
United Kingdom Pounds		United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.57276 USD		1 USD = 0.635826 GBP

XE.com GBP to USD rate 100,000,000.00 GBP = 157,275,754.50 USD

[verga]

For crying out loud don’t let Dan Brown know about this.
He will some how find a way to make it the Church’s fault.

[SES1066]

I wonder if this is the most valuable man-made item by weight and size? If it isn’t it certainly will be near the top!

[Melpomene]

That would be a fun Antiques Roadshow episode!

[SES1066]

It sold for $19,000 (hammer) to New York dealer Kate Ganz, who sold it (for about the same sum) to the Canadian-born, Europe-based connoisseur Peter Silverman in 2007.

2009 = 157,275,754.50 USD

A mere 8,277% increase and a very, Very, VERY GREAT INVESTMENT! Of course the buyer took his chances and had to make a, for the time, large investment. However, I am sure that some governmental tax collector somewhere is looking VERY CLOSELY at the whole situation.

[paulycy]

How well does that recognition technology work on footprints?

[Stoat]

Indeed. I hope also that significant security will be embraced in all aspects of this work's storage and showing. I hope that Sweden will be more careful than the Munch Museum in Norway was.

Epoch Times - The Art of Protection

"The Scream" and "Madonna," two major paintings by famous Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, were stolen several years ago from the Munch Museum in Norway by armed robbers in broad daylight.

[Tainan]

Heck...that’d be enough for me to retire and successfully develop a long litany of bad habits.

[Stoat]

LMAO :-)

Agreed....as well as being able to insure that there will be no need for any more FReepathons for the forseeable future :-)

[jedi150]

That a Sasquach in the magnifide section?

[Stoat]

It does look like one of those grainy Sasquatch pictures, doesn’t it? Hopefully Lumière Technology did not mix things up.....

[Fresh Wind]

This points out one important fact about the art world:

The value of a work depends more on who the artist was than the quality of the work itself.

[elli1]

Munch Paintings Recovered>

There are several versions of The Scream & Madonna with some copies of each in museum possession. I never 'got' the appeal of The Scream.

[Mercat]

I don’t know whether there’s much to it but in the book Krakatoa about the famous eruption in SE Asia in 1883, the author claims that the tsunami and the meteorological event circled the world and impacted Europe and that the painting “The Scream” was an attempt to record that event as observed in Europe.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Libloather]

Kemp believes the portrait must date from around 1496...

I would test it for da Vinci DNA.