Peter Paul Rubens

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Misidentified Painting Sold for $40K Could Now Fetch $8M

Sotheby's to sell original work by old master Peter Paul Rubens, featuring St. Sebastian

(Newser) - A painting that sold at auction for $40,000 in 2008 is expected to fetch at least $5 million when it goes under the hammer next month—and you can't entirely blame inflation. Last time around, St. Sebastian Tended by Two Angels was attributed to the French Baroque painter...

Long-Lost Rubens to Be Sold
Rubens Could Bring $35M
Oct 29, 2022 3:00 PM CDT

Rubens Could Bring $35M

Long-lost painting to see with a group of Baroque-era works

(Newser) - A Peter Paul Rubens painting thought to have been lost for more than 200 years will go on auction in New York in January, along with nine other Baroque-era artworks, and could bring as much as $35 million. Sotheby's, which is handling the sale, said the 1609 "Salome...

Museum Lifts Masterpiece Into Place
Art Museum
Again Unveils
Masterpiece
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Mar 16, 2022 5:09 PM CDT

Art Museum Again Unveils Masterpiece

Large Rubens was kept in former nuclear bomb shelter during Antwerp building's renovation

(Newser) - Moving a masterpiece is difficult, even more so when it measures 13.5 feet by 22.1 feet and weighs 1,225 pounds. Such is the size of the "Baptism of Christ," by Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (1605), the jewel in the crown of the Royal Museum...

Rubens Masterpiece Found Hanging on Johannesburg Wall
Painting of 'Funny Old Man'
Turns Out to Be Much More
in case you missed it
Jun 30, 2018 4:20 PM CDT

Painting of 'Funny Old Man' Turns Out to Be Much More

German-Jewish doctor made sure painting by Rubens wasn't looted by Nazis

(Newser) - A painting by one of Europe's old masters has been found hanging in a Johannesburg, South Africa, home. Peter Paul Rubens' "Portrait of a Gentleman" was owned by a German-Jewish doctor, who secreted it out of Nazi Germany when he fled in the 1930s. Patients hid his art...

'Lost' 400-Year-Old Portrait Found Above Fireplace

Dirt, additions of other artists had obscured its identity

(Newser) - A man's day out with his family resulted in the discovery of a 400-year-old painting of "perhaps one of the most famous gay men in history" by one of the most important painters in history, the Guardian reports. The story is only slightly less surprising because that man...

On Sale Today: Items From Princess Di's Family Homes
On Sale Today: Items From Princess Di's Family Homes
aristocratic auction dept.
Jul 6, 2010 8:58 AM CDT

On Sale Today: Items From Princess Di's Family Homes

Items have been in the Spencer family for centuries

(Newser) - If you wish you could get a little closer to Princess Di but aren't interested in buying jam made from her hair , you have another shopping opportunity: Beginning today, art, antiques, and old carriages owned by her family will be sold at three separate auctions, the AP reports. Many of...

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