France’s leading authority on Old Masters artwork says Italian critics are incorrect to doubt the authenticity of Caravaggio’s debatable ‘attic.’
Art professional Eric Turquin isn’t simplest convinced that a canvas observed in the attic of an antique residence in southwest France is a Caravaggio – he believes it is a modern masterpiece.
France’s leading authority on Old Masters artwork has staked his reputation on the announcement that the work is the fiery Italian artist’s misplaced “Judith and Holofernes.”
The painting depicting a grisly biblical scene of the stunning Jewish widow Judith beheading a drowsing Assyrian will be displayed in Paris on Friday before it goes under the hammer on June 27 in Toulouse, the city where it turned into discovered five years ago.
Turquin stated it has to sell for between one hundred and 150 million euros.
“Not handiest is it a Caravaggio; however, of all of the Caravaggios which are acknowledged these days, this is one of the terrific pictures,” he insisted.
“The painting is in a fantastically proper nation, much higher than the Caravaggios I have visible in Naples,” he advised AFP.
