Sotheby’s sold Sandro Botticelli’s circa-1480 portrait of a “Young Man Holding a Roundel” for $92.2 million to a Russian-speaking collector during a live-streamed online sale Thursday ...

Not Sotheby’s, which is otherwise going all out for the Jan. 28 auction in New York of the Botticelli, “Young Man Holding a Roundel,” circa 1480.

Botticelli’s “Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” (circa 1480), is believed to show a Medici family member. It also has a small, gold-ground tondo inserted into the painting.

Sandro Botticelli, Young Man Holding a Roundel. Sotheby’s. Since the pandemic began and worldwide anxiety set in, auction houses have been adjusting their expectations in terms of raking in huge ...

The rare 15th-century portrait Young Man Holding a Roundel by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli sold for a whopping $92.2 million, including fees, at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday morning.. The ...

Sotheby's said Young Man Holding a Roundel was acquired for $1.7 million by its previous owner, late real estate billionaire Sheldon Solow, at an auction in 1982 in the United Kingdom.

NEW YORK — A 15th-century painting by Sandro Botticelli sold for $92.2 million in an auction Thursday morning. The auction lasted just 4 1/2 minutes and drew only two bidders, according to the ...

NEW YORK — A 15th-century painting by Sandro Botticelli sold for $92.2 million in an auction Thursday morning. The auction lasted just 4 1/2 minutes and drew only two bidders, according to the ...

Botticelli’s 15th-century portrait of a nobleman in “Young Man Holding a Roundel” is the highlight of Sotheby’s Masters Week sale series in New York in January.

First, in July 2019, there were was the speculative “Portrait of a Young Man,” catalogued as “in the style of Botticelli,” which sold at 1,000 times its estimate, at 7.5 million Swiss ...

It hits the auction block a year after Sotheby’s record-setting US$92.2 million sale of Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel in January 2021.

First, in July 2019, there were was the speculative “Portrait of a Young Man,” catalogued as “in the style of Botticelli,” which sold at 1,000 times its estimate, at 7.5 million Swiss ...