With sales postponed and auction houses remaining closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a rapid shift to the digital marketplace, data from Invaluable, the Boston-based online secondary-market platform, reveals.
The Paris auction house Tajan will offer a rediscovered drawing by Leonardo da Vinci at public sale on June 19, for the first time, testing the market for a work by the Renaissance master after the extraordinary sale of 鈥淪alvator Mundi鈥 last year.
A drawing owned by a French doctor is thought to be a lost work by Leonardo da Vinci 鈥 it bears all the hallmarks of one of history鈥檚 greatest creative minds.
An "extraordinary" drawing by Leonardo da Vinci valued at 鈧15 million (拢12.5 million ) was unveiled on Monday in Paris after a retired French doctor brought the lost work to an auction house amongst a jumble of unknown sketches.
A retired doctor visited a Paris auction house in March with a portfolio of drawings. It contained a work now attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at about $15.8 million.
On 8 and 9 December 2015, the Parisian auction house Tajan is selling modern and contemporary art works from a European collection of the 20th century, on display from 26 November.