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Turner’s Masterpiece of Rome Returns to City Ahead of U.K. Sale that Could Set a Record
The work still shows Turner’s fingerprints and brush hairs, and Sotheby’s expects it to fetch around £50 million.
- On Tuesday, the 1836 painting "Rome, From Mount Aventine" by William Turner went on public display at Palazzo Rondinini in Rome, ahead of its December 9 auction in London.
- British collector Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro commissioned the work, which Archibald Primrose, the 5th Earl of Rosebery, purchased in 1876 as a wedding gift for his wife, Hannah de Rothschild.
- Sotheby estimates the masterpiece at $66 million, noting the work remains on its original canvas and frame after 191 years, with traces of the artist's fingerprints still visible.
- The painting previously set a record for a Turner work when it sold for $47.6 million in 2014, ending the Rosebery family's ownership of more than 130 years.
- Following its display in Rome, the painting will travel to Hong Kong and New York, as Mario Tavella, chairman of Sotheby Europe, hopes it ends up in a public museum "where it could be admired by everyone.
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"Rome, vue de l'Aventin", exhibited for the first time in 1836, was only sold twice since then and still bears the artist's fingerprints, as well as the hairs of his brush.
Turner’s masterpiece of Rome returns to city ahead of U.K. sale that could set a record
One of J.M.W. Turner ’s best-known landscapes went on display in Rome on Tuesday ahead of a U.K. auction where it could fetch about 50 million euros (US$57 million), potentially setting a new auction record for the British artist.
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