“A museum-worthy piece and a powerful painting”: auctioneer on record-breaking Artemesia Gentileschi painting

Establishing an auction record for Artemesia Gentileschi (1593-1652), a rediscovered self-portrait that sold for €1.85m (£1.63m) in Paris was described as “a museum-worthy piece and a powerful painting” by Eric Turquin, appraiser and expert in Old Master paintings.

In the video here Turquin, who helped with the cataloguing for the auction, discusses the “extraordi…

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