Day: February 4, 2021

With over 1.3 million people watching, Sandro Botticelli’s Portrait of a young man holding a roundel made history during Sotheby’s Masters Week. Sotheby’s marquee Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I auction in New York saw a historic sale for a work by the preeminent Florentine master Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli. The painting, an exquisite work of the Italian Renaissance, achieved an astonishing $92.2 million to lead Sotheby’s Masters Week, a series of seven auctions encompassing Old Master paintings, drawings and sculpture spanning more than half a millennium…