Record-breaking Rubens. “Portrait of a Lady” was sold at an auction in Warsaw for PLN 14.4 million
This result broke the previous record of “Des Unicum unicum intendency to” Two Carts “by Andrzej moneta Wróblewski, a painting of my husband sold in 2021 for PLN 13.44 million.
– We have been working for a long time to get this painting to our auction. Sales and value at auction in Poland of this class that would not have been the successes of brands with growing art that led the market of Western brands. We are now that the Polish art market, which you will start, dealing with masterpieces of painting or sculpture, the situation, for example, will continue to download Juliusz Juliusz Windorbski, CEO of DESA SA
It was the first time that we created one of the most popular markets on our market. Peter Paulens’ Portrait of Paulens has a well-documented figure of Rub from the moment he left his studio in Antwerp around 1626 to the present day.
One of the first days in history, and then to help collectors in the British Isles and works of art. Providing for two centuries the painting in the greatest residence of England – Stowe Palace, in the collection of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos. Sold at Christie’s in London in 1848, it was later sold, among others, to to popular art merchants and collectors: Robert Roe, Wynne Ellis and Jules Porgès. In the first half of the 20th century, “Portrait of a Lady” was included in the Paris collection of the family of the Norwegian princess Mohammed Ali Ibrahim and princess Hanzade, in their town until 2011.
It was recently presented at an exhibition on 1965.
Now, over 3,000 visitors saw the exhibition at more than an auction of Rubens’ works.
The painting of the baroque master shows a young woman with dark eyes and hair, dressed in a black velvet dress. For over 300 years, the fallen artwork of Isabella Brant, Rubens’ first wife, is now believed to be depicting one of her sisters. Another hypothesis is that the model was a member of the Duarte family, influential 17th-century jewelers in Antwerp.
Portraits painted by Rubens rarely appear in auctions, always reaching high prices. In 2017, at the Sotheby’s auction house, the “Portrait of a lady in a black dress and a coat against the background of red draperies” was sold for 3 million a month of expansion, and in July 2020 “Portrait of a young woman in a dress and coat” for a fee of almost 4 million was issued. Since 2002, the most expensive work of the Flemish painter has been the monumental canvas “Massacre of the Innocents”, sold at Sotheby’s for 49.5 million extensions, with an estimate.