Portrait of Sigismund Baldinger by Georg Pencz (circa 1500–1550), one of the last works by the artist to remain in private hands, realized £5,641,250 at the Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolours Evening Sale in London on 6 July, and set a new record auction price for the artist. This strikingly beautiful, museum-quality portrait is widely recognized as a masterpiece of Northern Renaissance painting. The picture, which represents the final flowering of the golden age of Nuremburg painting, is an early product of the cross-pollination between German and Italian High Renaissance artists. (RT: 1:20)
7 July 2010
Portrait of Sigismund Baldinger (1510-1558), three-quarter-length, seated, in a
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