Turner Painting Offered in Vienna for 38 Million Euros: Authenticity Confirmed
Last October, the Vienna gallery Artziwna drew attention with a rediscovered painting by the British Romantic William Turner (1775-1851). It is the first version of Turner's classic "Venice, from the Canale delle Giudecca, with the Church of Santa Maria della Salute," which hangs in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The gallery is now offering the painting for direct sale at 38 million euros, as it announced on Monday.
Current owner acquired Turner painting in 2005
Until now, the work, created around 1840, was in private ownership in Vienna, although the provenance of the over 180-year-old painting in relation to its early phase and the path to Vienna cannot be clearly traced, Artziwna informed in the fall. In 1980, the purchase of "Venice, from the Canale delle Giudecca, with the Church of Santa Maria della Salute" by one of the previous owners in Vienna was documented. In 2005, the current owner finally acquired the Turner painting from an Austrian private collector. The new owner made it available for scientific studies - with the result that it is indeed an oil painting by the British master.
The owner decided on a direct sale through the gallery instead of an auction, Artziwna stated in response to an APA inquiry. There are no specific interested parties yet for the approximately 60 by 90 centimeter sister painting.
Experts confirmed authenticity of Turner painting in Vienna
With the announcement of the rediscovered work, the gallery also published a scientific publication on the genesis of the work, in which experts such as Belvedere curator Franz Smola or Katja Sterflinger, head of the Institute for Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, address the technical investigations as well as provide an art historical classification. The conclusion of the experts was clear: "All scientific investigations prove that this can only be a painting by Turner," said Smola.
(APA/Red)
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