A real bidding war broke out over a three-hundred-year-old marble statue of a veiled female head at an auction at the Dorotheum in Vienna. The work, attributed to Antonio Corradini, was eventually sold for 1.925 million euros, while its initial estimate was only 12,000-16,000 euros. The extraordinary price may be due to an art historical discovery in a Venetian museum.
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A real bidding war broke out over a three-hundred-year-old marble statue of a veiled female head at an auction at the Dorotheum in Vienna. The work, attributed to Antonio Corradini, was eventually sold for 1.925 million euros, while its initial estimate was only 12,000-16,000 euros. The extraordinary price may be due to an art historical discovery in a Venetian museum.