Christie’s New York will offer a selection of works from the 15th to the 19th centuries by Italian, Northern, French and British artists in a live auction on 4 February 2025. The sale features a strong group of British School works, including a rediscovered work by J.M.W. Turner, Approach to Venice, circa 1840, one of a handful of the artist’s Venetian sketches left in private hands (estimate: $300,000 to $500,000), and a large topographical view by Paul Sandby, In the woodyard, Windsor Great Park (estimate: $40,000 to $60,000).
Heading the Italian drawings is a work by Jacopo Ligozzi, Head of a woman in profile to the right, wearing an elaborate headdress (estimate: $200,000 to $300,000), and a pen and brown ink drawing of the Apostle Saint Thomas by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, il Guercino (estimate: $40,000 to $60,000).
Another highlight is a rare pen and ink drawing by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Travelers on donkeys approaching a ruined city gate (estimate: $70,000 to $100,000). French drawings include a study of a Greek warrior by Eugène Delacroix (estimate: $40,000 to $60,000) and a Parisian scene, The Market, by Honoré Daumier (estimate: $40,000 to $50,000).
(Press Release)
