After being discovered by a junk dealer in Capri in 1962, this rolled-up oil painting may be a Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth $6.6 million.
Inside the Olson Kundig-Designed Townhouses in Park City’s Newest Members-Only Community. At the time, Lo Rosso actually stumbled across two canvases while searching in the basement of an Italian villa.
However, only one of the works had the Spanish artist’s signature in the corner. He then took the rolled-up canvas with him back to Pompeii, framed it, and gave it to his wife as a gift. “When mom hung it on the wall to decorate the house, renaming it ‘the scribble’ due to the strangeness of the woman’s face depicted, I wasn’t even born yet,” Lo Rosso’s son Andrea told CNN. The asymmetrical portrait features Dora Maar, a French poet and Picasso’s longtime muse and mistress, sporting a blue dress and red lipstick. It wasn’t until the ‘80s that Andrea became suspicious of the painting after seeing the artist’s. They also registered it with Dr. Cinzia Altieri, a graphologist for a patrimony court in Milan, where the painting has been secured in a vault since 2019. It wasn’t until last month that Altieri certified the portrait as a Picasso. Honorary president of the Arcadia Foundation, Luca Gentile Canal Marcante, also believes that it’s legit. “There is no doubt that the signature is his,” Altieri said in a statement to the Italian press. “There was no evidence to demonstrate its apocryphal nature.” According to the experts, the painting could fetch millions based on the current art market. However, the next step is to present it to the Picasso Foundation in Málaga for appraisal. If proven to be an original, the certification would significantly increase the artwork’s value. For example, another one of Picasso’s Maar paintings hammered down for a recordduring a 2006 an event with Sotheby’s New York. At the time, it was the second-highest price ever paid for a piece of art at auction. Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to…This $15 Million Shelter Island Home Offers a Relaxed Waterside Setting Wrapped in a Modern PackageRiley Keough Wants to Preserve Elvis’s Graceland Mansion as Its New OwnerFrom a Tom Colicchio Dinner to a Rare Cartier Bowl: 7 Stellar New Drops From The Vault by Robb Report
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