The auction of a portrait of the famous Italian Renaissance painter became the highlight of the old master auctions in New York.
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Sandro Botticelli’s “Young Man Holding a Roundel” achieved $ 92 million at Sotheby’s in New York.
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It was the crown jewel in the collection of a New York veteran. Yesterday it was auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York. Sandro Botticelli’s “Portrait of a Young Man with a Medallion” fetched $ 92 million. The famous Renaissance portrait was on display for decades, first in the Washington National Gallery, then in the Metropolitan Museum – always only on loan. The owner was the prominent real estate entrepreneur Sheldon Solow, who had acquired the gem in 1982 for just over a million dollars at the time.
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