Titian Brings $16.9 Million, Met Buys Second Del Vaga
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Titian’s large-scale painting of the Madonna, baby Jesus and two saints sold for $16.9 million in a packed room at Sotheby’s in New York today, setting an auction record for the painter.
The price, which included buyer’s commission, fell short of the high presale estimate of $20 million. It broke the existing $13.6 million auction record for the artist, set 20 years ago at Christie’s in London.