Bronzino Portrait to Sell at Auction After Being Restituted to Heirs of Jewish Collector

Dec 14, 2022 473

BY: ANGELICA VILLA

A restituted portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Bronzino will come to auction next year. Expected to fetch a price between $3 million and $5 million, the work will be offered during an Old Masters sale at Sotheby’s in New York that is scheduled to take place in January 2023.

The ca. 1527 painting was restituted from the German government to the heirs of the Munich-based Jewish art collector Isle Hesselberger earlier this year. Proceeds from the sale will go toward Jewish causes and medical aid in New York.

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SOURCE: https://www.artnews.com/

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