A wall of William Turner discovered in Vienna goes on sale

The Austrian gallery Artziwna It offers for sale for 38 million euros a recently rediscovered table of the British painter William Turner (1775-1851). This is the first version of ‘Venice, seen from the Giudecca Canal, with the church of Santa Maria Della Salute‘, a classic of the romantic artist found in the Victoria & Albert Museum from London.

The work, created around 1840he was so far in individuals in Vienna, according to the Austrian medium on Monday Kronen Zeitungalthough it has not been possible to determine its origin in its early years or the moment in which it reached the Austrian capital.

As reported by the gallery in autumn, in 1980 its purchase was documented by one of the previous owners in Vienna. In 2005, its current owner acquired it from an Austrian private collector. The new owner made him available to scientific research, which determined that it was an oil painting of the British painter.

Its owner has decided to sell the picture, approximately 60 by 90 centimeters, directly through the gallery instead of doing so at an auction. There are still no interested in the work analyzed experts such as the conservative of Belvedere, Franz Smola, and Katja Sterflinger, director of the Institute of Science and Technology in the art of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna. «All scientific research shows that it can only be a Turner picture”Smola said.