![]() Mario Guderzo, leading Canova scholar, former Director of the Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova and Museo Biblioteca Archivio di Bassano del Grappa commented: “ It is a miracle that Antonio Canova’s exceptional, long lost masterpiece the ‘Recumbent Magdalene’ has been found, 200 years after its completion. This sale is a fitting celebration of Canova’s brilliance in the bicentenary year of his death.ĭr. First on view at Christie’s headquarters in London on 19 and 20 March, it will tour to New York where it will be on view 8 to 13 April and then Hong Kong, 27 May to 1 June, before returning to London for a dedicated three week exhibition in June, ahead of being part of the pre-sale view from 2 to 7 July. This is an extremely rare opportunity for the market to acquire such an important example of neo-classical sculpture. Recumbent Magdalene will be a star lot during Christie’s Summer edition of Classic Week in London. ![]() ![]() Having accidentally become an art world ‘sleeping beauty’ over the last 100 years – her authorship gradually forgotten and whereabouts unknown – this outstanding sculpture of Mary Magdalene in a state of ecstasy was commissioned by the Prime Minister of the day, Lord Liverpool (1812-1827). London – A landmark re-discovery, Antonio Canova’s (1757-1822) Maddalena Giacente (Recumbent Magdalene ) 1819-1822, is the Italian titan’s lost masterpiece, which he completed shortly before his death (estimate: £5,000,000-8,000,000).
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