The Artziwna Austrian gallery has taken for sale for the ‘Modico’ price of 38 million euros A recently rediscovered centenary picture of the British painter William Turner (1775-1851), as reported on Monday the Austrian medium Kronen Zeitung.
This is the first version of the Turner ‘Classic Venice, seen from the Giudecca Canal, with the church of Santa Maria Della Salute’, which is in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
The work, created around 1840, was so far in individuals in Vienna, although the origin of the canvas cannot be determined exactly, according to the gallery in autumn. This art house has been the coordinator of a scientific researchcarried out by the current owner of the oil, which last year attributed to Turner the authorship of the work.
“The scientific analysis led to a sensational finding” last fall in Vienna, recalls the gallery in a statement. The gallery spokesman, Andreas Jillysaid that the attribution to Turner is sustained by multiple and exhaustive Scientific and historical-artistic analysis.
Although its origin has not been completely traced, it is estimated that the canvas -about 60 by 90 centimeters and 180 years old– “I would have been in Austria since the 1950s,” according to Jilly.
“A Brother Table”
He current ownerwhose name has not been revealed, bought it in 2005 to a private collector. Given the increase in suspicions that the picture could be Turner’s work, he commissioned to open an investigation.
The authors of the study, including experts from the Belvedere Museum and the Academy of Plastic Arts of Vienna, concluded that it is “A brother painting”, That is, another version of the homonymous Turner painting exposed in London.
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