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The market for Prospero Fontana
18/10/2001
The market for the little known Bolognese artist Prospero Fontana (1512-1597) is in the low to mid price brackets. Few works of absolute certainty have appeared on the market but high quality works are capable of making up to $ 50,000 (€ 55,300). Interestingly it his drawings which are often more sought after than his paintings.
(Elena de Luca)
Attributed to Prospero Fontana, Portrait of Giulio De Medici in a monk’s habit
The market for Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
15/10/2001
Though its been something of a mixed year in Italy for 19th century paintings, top prices were paid for Italian Divisionist (and Macchiaioli) artists. Of the latter, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpeda led the pack with his April in Volpedo, which sold at Sotheby’s, Milan on the 5th of June for $ 442,000 (€ 483,100), against an estimate of $ 283,400-377,900 (309,800-413,100). The result puts the artist in the top-ten best performances of Italian art sales for the year.
(Annalisa Rossi)
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, April in the meadows in Volpedo
Polished paintings. The market for Marcantonio Franceschini
09/10/2001
The paintings of Marcantonio Franceschini (1648-1729) provide an opportunity to buy into Italian Baroque paintings at conservative estimates ranging from $ 5,000-10,000 for low priced works in the manner or circle of the artist, right up to $ 300,000 for his lucent oil on copper works. A follower of Francesco Albani and Annibale Carracci, Franceschini’s market is gaining ground.
(Alex Kearney)
Marcantonio Franceschini, Liberality; and Maternal Charity
Love Conquers All. The market for Elisabetta Sirani
02/10/2001
The US postal service decided that their Christmas stamp in 1994 would use the image of The Virgin and Child by the 17th century Bolognese female artist, Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665). On the 3rd of October Christie’s, New York offers Omnia vincit Amor, an oil on canvas measuring 83.7 x 68.6 cm, with an estimate of $ 15,000-20,000 (€ 16,450-21,930) and hopes are high.
(Andrew Moore)
Elisabetta Sirani, Virgin and Child
A portrait painter in the Russian Court. The market for Pietro Rotari
01/10/2001
An unusual canvas by Pietro Rotari (Verona 1707-1762 St Petersburg) is to be auctioned at Christie’s, New York on the 3rd of October 2001 with a high estimate of $ 100,000-150,000. Yet despite this interesting work, its subject matter is unusual for Rotari on the market, with his portraits of young women and children better known.
(Fiona Long)
Pietro Rotari, The meeting of Alexander the Great and Roxana, behind a trompe l’ oeil curtain
Hot and cold sellers. The market for Mattia Preti
21/09/2001
The works by Mattia Preti (1613 – 1699) which have gone up for auction over the last ten years have seen some erratic movements. Such fluctuations in sale price can be distinguished between confirmed (or authentic) works by the artist and those which are vague attributions to the manner, school of a follower of Preti.
(Elena De Luca)
Mattia Preti, St John the Baptist in the Forest
The market for Italian Renaissance prints
19/09/2001
From the 27th September to the 6th January, the British Museum in London will be showing the exhibition The Print in Italy 1550-1620 with engravings by around 90 artists, both Italian and foreign engravers. Of particular note are Giorgio Ghisi, Federico Barocci, Annibale and Agostino Carracci, Francesco Villamena and the Flemish artists Cornelis Cort and Aegidius Sadeler who worked in Italy in this period.
(Andrew Moore)
Giorgio Ghisi, Venus and Adoni
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