The Most Expensive Old Masters Artworks Ever Sold at Auction
From rare Rubenses to a record-breaking Leonardo, these are the 10 top selling works in the category.
Peter Paul Rubens
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Tech Entrepreneur Sean Parker Ensnared in Dispute Over $5.7 M. Peter Paul Rubens Painting
The work's seller claims she had withdrawn the painting from a sale held in 2018.
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From the Archives: Peter Paul Rubens’s ‘New, Radiant, and Fresh’ Style, in 1936
Wilhelm Valentiner on the Flemish master.
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Peter Paul Rubens Drawing Sells for Record-Setting $8.2 M. at Sotheby’s
The buyer of the work remains unidentified.
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Delacroix’s Modernism
Few artists had so decisive an impact on modern art as the painter and graphic artist Eugène Delacroix.
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Acquiring Minds: Top 200 Collectors Reveal Their Mentors and Inspirations
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Secret Grandeur: Leo Steinberg on an Early Velázquez Masterpiece, in 1971
In the early 1970s, art historian and critic Leo Steinberg wrote a series of short articles for ARTnews about works he believed were masterpieces, mainly ones from the Renaissance and Baroque periods.…
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