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Artprice: The “Toulouse Caravaggio” acquired privately!
The public sale was scheduled for Thursday, 27 June at 18:00, Toulouse time. According to the Sale Conditions, anyone interested in acquiring the painting had to”register as a bidder at least 15 days before the sale.” As thierry Ehrmann explains, that meant that since 13 June at the very least, all the potential bidders were known to the sellers. And, as Julius Caesar would have said… the die is now thrown.
Because… no less than 48 hours before the public sale was due to take place, the sale has been cancelled! A private transaction has been concluded. “An offer that we had no choice but to communicate to the owners of the painting” says the official statement which provides a very concise explanation: “the fact that the offer comes from a collector with close connections to a major museum convinced the sellers to accept it”.
This is undoubtedly a very happy ending for everyone involved, not to mention the sellers the art expert who discovered the work, Eric Turquin, and auctioneer Marc Labarbe. The undisclosed amount apparently readily confirms that the work is indeed an authentic Caravaggio, and the buyer, anonymous, but close enough to the world’s most prestigious museums, is apparently committed to ensuring painting will very soon be exhibited in one of the planet’s top museums.
It could be any museum in the world… except the Louvre, which turned its back on the painting… “An attitude that, for me personally, was difficult to digest » confessed Eric Turquin to the French magazine Le Point. The official statement says: « Purchased by a foreign collector, [the painting] will leave France« . Its ultimate destination was the sellers’ second biggest concern, after its sale price of course… otherwise a deal would certainly have been struck directly with a major museum.
From the sellers’ point of view, this is the best possible outcome. In terms of transparency, it’s a total and singular reversal of the situation. The sellers promised a “authentic” public sale, i.e. a sale that was 100% public, with no reserve price and broadcast live on internet so that everyone and anyone could participate in the auction. The final price was going to allow the Market to decide on the painting’s authenticity… but the curtain has fallen even before it went up… and the amount of the transaction will remain forever confidential.
Last Monday, on 17 June, Sotheby’s announced its withdrawal from the public sphere. A week later, the most anticipated work of the year has suddenly done more or less the same. For Artprice, the two cases strongly suggest that the Art Market is seeking a certain discretion. In the sales catalogue, Eric Turquin thanked his collaborators: “I wish to thank my expert colleagues, the restorers, the framers, the bankers, the insurers, the photographers and the transporters, etc. who have scrupulously respected their professional confidentiality obligations and allowed us to work in a calm and collected manner.”
After five years of work, research and determination, “this painting will go to one of the best museums in the world. And for me that was essential” concludes Eric Turquin.
Given the importance of this work in art historical terms, Artprice promises to track the reappearance of this painting – a painting that, as of today, no longer needs to be referred to as the “The Toulouse Caravaggio” – and to shed as much light as possible on this private sale, concluded just hours before an auction that had all the makings of a truly historic event. Artprice’s consistent and long-standing efforts to bring transparency to the Art Market are more than ever justified.
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Artprice (from London): The « Toulouse Caravaggio” on show in London
“If I could have chosen to discover just one work among all those that have been lost in history… I would have chosen this one, without hesitation”. Such is the conviction and fascination of art expert Eric Turquin for the painting known as the “Toulouse Caravaggio” he has been entrusted to sell by auctioneer Marc Labarbe.
thierry Ehrmann: “After five years of research, analysis and polemics, the two men have announced that the owners are happy to let the Art Market decide the value of this exceptional and extraordinarily powerful work for which the French State has finally granted an export visa”.
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610)
Judith and Holofernes (c.1604 – 1605)
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This Thursday 28 February at the Colnaghi Gallery in London, against the backdrop of London first prestige sales of the year, Eric Turquin and Marc Labarbe confirmed at a press conference that the Judith and Holofernes painting will be auctioned on 27 June 2019.
However the location of its sale is the biggest surprise… not London, not New York, not even in Paris… but rather where it all began… in the south-west of France where it was found, by chance, in the attic of a house near Toulouse, in 2014. Moreover, the painting’s owners have re-confirmed that the Toulouse auctioneer they originally contacted – Marc Labarbe, who first recognized the exceptional qualities of the work – will be responsible for orchestrating the sale of this extraordinary painting.
The stakes are high indeed… not only for all art lovers around the world who enjoy a good story and the thrill of market surprises, but also and particularly for the French Art Market. Thirty years after the historic Parisian sale of Pablo Picasso’s Noces de Pierrette (1905), an auction organized on French soil could once again rock the global Art Market.
A museum-quality work
As revealed by Artprice in January, the sellers have opted for an extremely original sales strategy via which they hope to elicit the kind of interest required to sell such a masterpiece.
The work is indeed exceptional in many respects. Its subject (a biblical decapitation), its age (more than 400 years old), its discovery (in an attic in the South of France) and especially its attribution to Caravaggio and the piercing power of Judith’s look, all give this painting a very special place in History and on the Art Market.
Only 68 works by Caravaggio are known to date, scattered throughout the Western world. Many have remained in Italy, hanging in the most beautiful churches of Rome, Naples and Sicily, while the others contribute to the notoriety of some of the world’s most prestigious European and American institutions: London’s National Gallery, New York’s Metropolitan Museum and the Paris Louvre each have three, while Madrid’s Prado and Saint Petersburg’s Hermitage each have a single painting by Caravaggio.
Acquiring this latest discovery probably appeals to all of the world’s major museums. However, few of them can afford it. The current estimate for the work is somewhere between between €100 and €150 million; but, the annual acquisition budget of the Louvre Museum (the world’s leading museum by visitor number) is still under €20 million. Likewise, lots of Japanese, English and Russian museums – who would love to own this newly discovered masterpiece – are unlikely to be in the running to acquire it.
Unless a State decides to make an exceptional grant, public museums will have to give way to major private collectors. In recent years Western, Asian and Middle Eastern billionaires have snapped up all the best works auctioned. Their immense financial power seems limitless when it comes to investing in the last remaining jewels of Art History in circulation.
Auction results above $100 million
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Artist Artwork Price Sale Auction House
- Leonardo DA VINCI (1452-1519) Salvator Mundi (c.1500)
$450,312,500 15/Nov/2017 Christie’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’) (1955)
$179,365,000 11/May/2015 Christie’s – New York - Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) Nu couché (1917-18)
$170,405,000 09/Nov/2015 Christie’s – New York - Amedeo MODIGLIANI (1884-1920) Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) (1917)
$157,159,000 14/May/2018 Sotheby’s – New York - Francis BACON (1909-1992) Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969)
$142,405,000 12/Nov/2013 Christie’s – New York - Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) L’homme au doigt (1947)
$141,285,000 11/May/2015 Christie’s – New York - QI Baishi (1864-1957) Screens of landscapes (1925)
$140,954,580 17/Dec/2017 Poly – Beijing - Edvard MUNCH (1863-1944) The scream (1895)
$119,922,500 02/May/2012 Sotheby’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Fillette la corbeille fleurie (1905)
$115,000,000 08/May/2018 Christie’s – New York - Jean-Michel BASQUIAT (1960-1988) Untitled (1982)
$110,487,500 18/May/2017 Sotheby’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932)
$106,482,500 04/May/2010 Christie’s – New York - Andy WARHOL (1928-1987) Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963)
$105,445,000 13/Nov/2013 Sotheby’s – New York - Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) Garçon à la pipe (1905)
$104,168,000 05/May/2004 Sotheby’s – New York - Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) L’homme qui marche I (1960)
$103,689,994 03/Feb/2010 Sotheby’s – London - Alberto GIACOMETTI (1901-1966) Chariot (1950)
$100,965,000 04/Nov/2014 Sotheby’s – New York
To date, only fifteen works have publicly sold above the $100 million threshold. All of these were hammered in the three major capitals of the Art Market, organised by the three most powerful auction houses on the planet. However, today, with globalisation having so radically changed the global art market, this operating system could well be completely obsolete.
Having remained locked up Eric Turquin’s Paris offices for many years, the Toulouse Caravaggio has finally received its export visa and has began a world tour. Currently in London, the work will then be taken to New York to steal the spotlight during the prestige sales in May, before returning to Toulouse to be put on sale.
According to Artprice’s CEO / Founder, thierry Ehrmann, “when everyone has seen Judith decapitating Holofernes and has experienced the extraordinary power of this painting, the location of the sale will not matter much. Whether sold in Toulouse or New York, Caravaggio will go to the highest bidder. In any case, the painting will certainly not remain in Toulouse, nor in France.
The work’s owners want an ‘authentic’ sale, giving the Market the final word… without trying to control it. It’s a way of doing things that we have almost forgotten, and yet it is the veritable purpose of public sales. This confidence in the market can only be rewarded.”
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