‘The Main of Sorrow’, one of renowned Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli’s last masterpieces, will star in Sotheby’s annual Masters Week sales series in New York in January 2022 with an estimate in excess of $40 million.
Executed in the late 15th/early 16th century, the portrait of the resurrected Christ is the second of the late artist’s work to be auctioned following Sotheby’s record-breaking sale of Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel in January of this year, which realized $92.2 million, making it one of the most valuable portraits of any era ever sold, one of the most valuable Old Master Paintings ever sold at auction, and the most valuable work ever sold in an Old Masters auction.
The Man of Sorrows will be unveiled in a public exhibition in Hong Kong from October 7th to 11th before embarking on a global tour and returning to New York for a pre-sale exhibition in January.
Source: Sotheby’s