Artprice: The 'Toulouse Caravaggio' Will Be Sold To the Highest Bidder, Probably a Long Way From France
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Art appraiser, Eric Turquin, entrusted with the sale of the canvas, is now free to take the work beyond France's frontiers as he sees fit.
Key Points:
- Art appraiser, Eric Turquin, entrusted with the sale of the canvas, is now free to take the work beyond France's frontiers as he sees fit.
- Auctioneer Marc Labarbe, originally contacted by the owners of the painting, may well be involved in this historic sale.
- The value of such a work is of course difficult to estimate because there is nothing similar on the market.
- In 2016 a value of 120 million was announced, but that was before Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi fetched $450 million (incl.