The artwork, a 1632 oil painting on an oak panel, featuring the young artist at a time when he had recently established himself in Amsterdam, is thought to be one of the last privately owned self-portraits.Credit:-- the artist created some 80 paintings, etchings and drawings of himself, documenting his moods and appearance between the ages of 22 and 63, according to Sotheby's.
As well as creating self-portraits as character studies and exercises in portraying mood and light, Rembrandt was also producing the works, which often featured elaborate costumes, to sell to clients. The artist probably painted his self-portraits to give prospective buyers an idea of how he would portray them if they commissioned a portrait, Sotheby's said.The work in question, which features the artist dressed in black, with a white ruff and gold-trimmed black hat,"is one of only two in which the artist depicted himself dressed as a well-to-do young man," Sotheby's noted.
The portrait, which eclipsed the auctioneer's previous $8.9 million sale of a Rembrandt self-portrait in 2003, was one of five lots to sell for more than $10 million at the virtual evening sale, which featured works spanning some 500 years. The piece's selling price of £14.5 million included fees. The top-selling item, Joan Miró's 1927"Femme au chapeau rouge," fetched a whopping £22.3 million including fees,
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How much is the portrait of Donald Trump worth that he sold to a charity? To join him in a photo at DEAL N. J. is $250,000. That's the real deal. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and their women pictures are free on the computer.
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Equal to over 1 million hours of work of a decent law-abiding, and struggling, American employee.
What I could do with 18.7 million dollars...........it would be life changing for most of us..........yet someone just blew all that money on a painting.
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I like art. But my god...
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While tens of millions struggle for jobs and to put food on the table, the filthy rich are setting records on buying art
That’s because the dollar is worth much less than it used to be. In fact it’s been falling recently at a very rapid clip & the rich are parking their $$$ in real assets, getting rid of the soon to be toilet paper fiat currency debased by the Fed. Buy food.
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