ANGELA WEISS / AFP This sketch attributed to Michelangelo will be auctioned in April in New York. Starting price: $10,000.
ANGELA WEISS / AFP
This sketch attributed to Michelangelo will be auctioned in April in New York. Starting price: $10,000.
DRAWING – A sketch that promises to make prices soar. Auction company Christie’s will put up for sale a simple square scribbled on a small piece of yellowed paper this April in New York. How many are asked for? 10,000 dollars, or more than 9,000 euros. A sum that seems incredible for a sketch. Except this one was made by Michelangelo.
As Stijn Alsteens, international head of the Old Master Drawings department at Christie’s, explains to AFP, the company’s experts were examining the work of another artist of the period before seeing “this little piece of paper with a drawing and a letter” handwritten glued to the back of the frame.
In period calligraphy, Cosimo Buonarroti, the last direct descendant of Michelangelo, indicates in the letter, dated November 3, 1836, that he is offering “the attached essay” of are “illustrious ancestor Michelangelo” to one of his friends. It was therefore to Sir John Bowring, British writer and future governor of Hong Kong, that the essay was offered. His signature appears at the bottom of the sheet.
An unsigned sketch by Michelangelo
The work is visible at Chrtietes, starting this Friday, January 26. In 1986 in London, Christie’s had already sold the whole thing, indicating in the catalog the presence of the small square, “probably by the hand of Michelangelo”without arousing the slightest interest.
According to Stijn Alsteens, the Italian painter, executed these small “diagrams” to indicate the type of block of marble he needed for his work. Even without the artist’s signature, Christie’s confirms that it is “Michelangelo 100%”.
Poet, architect, painter but also sculptor, Michelangelo owes his fame to his Renaissance masterpieces. The best known, undoubtedly, is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.
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2024-01-26 15:57:57
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