When they later had it valued, it was re-established as the lost Canova, known as the Recumbent Magdalene, and is now being offered for sale at Christie’s with an estimate of £5-8 million. A long-lost Renaissance painting has been found hanging on the bedroom wall of a 90-year-old woman, decades after it was last seen. Several of Leonardo da Vinci’s works have been lost to time, but the Medusa Shield is perhaps the most mysterious. ‘Fit of pique’: lost vorticist masterpiece found under portrait by contemporary Atlantic City by Helen Saunders discovered under Praxitella by Wyndham Lewis, who may have painted over it on purpose. In 2002, it was sold in a garden statuary sale to the present owners, who are said to have paid £5,200 for it. Da Vinci's painting, Medusa Shield, was lost. The work, an early Renaissance masterpiece attributed to the 13th-century Italian painter Cimabue that was discovered earlier this year, was bought by an.
Over 20 of these copies have been identified, but, until recently, the. Ms van der Elst placed the statue in the garden of her home in Kensington, west London, where it remained after she sold the property in 1959, and was reportedly sold with the house again in the late 1960s. Salvator Mundi, or Savior of the World, is a painting known to have been made by da Vinci and copied by many others. The depiction of the Madonna and Child by Filippino. It passed through various hands - and survived the 1937 fire at Witley Court, the grand country house in Worcestershire - before being purchased in 1938 by Violet van der Elst, an eccentric entrepreneur who campaigned for the abolition of the death penalty.īy that stage, its provenance had been lost and the statue was described as a “classical figure” of unknown attribution. A LOST masterpiece found hanging above a bed in a bungalow in Enfield has sold for more than 250,000. The marble figure of a recumbent Mary Magdalene was commissioned in 1819 by Lord Liverpool, the then Prime Minister. A statue kept in a back garden and last sold for just £5,200 has been identified as a lost Antonio Canova masterpiece valued at up to £8 million.