'Exceptional' Turner Painting Shown in Rome Before Sale
The work still shows Turner’s fingerprints and brush hairs, and Sotheby’s expects it to fetch around £50 million.
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Rome, Sep 29 (EFE).- Boats crossing the Tiber River as they pass through the Roman quarter of Testaccio, peasants in the shadow of the pines and a bucolic peace where today thousands of tourists flock with their mobile phones to get the best panorama of the Italian capital. Thus was the Eternal City in [...] The entrance The Rome that fascinated Turner, his most valuable work, arrives for the first time to the Eternal Città was first published i…
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"Rome, From Mount Aventine", which was first exhibited in 1836, has only been sold twice before and still carries the artist's fingerprints and even the hairs of his brush. "The paint is as fresh and as three-dimensional and as rich as it was the day that he applied it to the canvas," Julian Gascoigne, Sotheby's senior specialist in British paintings, told AFP, calling it an "exceptional painting". At the presentation in Rome's baroque Palazzo R…
He arrived for the first time in the Eternal City, just where he had been conceived almost 200 years ago, the fascinating "Rome, from Mount Aventine" (1836), canvas included among the highest expressions of the late production of J.M.W. (ANSA)
Well-preserved: 'Exceptional' Turner painting shown in Rome before sale
A masterpiece by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775.1851), among the greatest exponents of Romanticism, returns to Rome, almost two centuries after being conceived right on the banks of the Tiber. It is "Rome, from Mount Aventine" ("Rome, seen from the Aventine Hill," painted in 1836 and among the most famous works of the maturity of the artist, [...]
(Adnkronos) " A masterpiece by the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775.1851), among the greatest exponents of Romanticism, returns to Rome, almost two centuries after being conceived right on the banks of the Tiber. It is "Rome, from Mount Aventine" (Rome, seen from the Aventine Hill, painted in 1836 and among the most famous works of the maturity of the artist, [...] The article Turner in search of records, the masterpiece of Ro…
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