(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 25 OCT - One of the largest private collections of Baroque masterpieces of recent decades goes to auction at Sotheby's.
The Fisch Collection will be the protagonist of the 'Master Week' sale which will take place next January in New York.
Ten works in total, including four by Italian masters, which are shown together for the first time.
Go Pietro Paolo Rubens to Orazio Gentileschi, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino, among others.
The highlight of the collection is 'The severed head of San Giovanni Battista presented in Solome' (c. 1609), estimated at between 25 and 35 million dollars.
The work was believed to last until 1998 when it appeared in a private collection in France.
"These works, Christopher Apostle, director of Sotheby's 'Old Masters' division, explained to ANSA - they have been collected over thirty years with great rigor and passion and represent the essence and power of Baroque art between 1600 and 1650. It includes the best masterpieces in private hands by Guercino, Barnardo Cavallino, Valentin deBoulogne, Orazio Gentileschi and obviously Pietro Paolo Rubens.
The work of the Flemish painter who will be auctioned was painted at the same time as 'The massacre of the innocents', sold at auction in London at Sotheby's in 2002 for nearly $ 50 million.
At the time it was the most expensive antique painting ever sold at auction. "
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They will then travel to Los Angeles, King Kong and London to then return to the United States for sale in January.
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