Judging the Last Judgement
January 27 2011
Picture: Doyles
One of the pictures that caught my eye in New York was a grisaille of a Last Judgement 'attributed to Frans Francken' at Doyles. Beautifully painted, but with some losses, it was estimated at just $2-4,000.
Not mentioned in the catalogue was the apparent Salander O'Reilly Gallery provenance, according to a sticker on the back. It was perhaps this unfortunate recent market history (Mr Salander is currently in jail) which led the picture to make just $3,750.
Which is puzzling, because when it came up at auction some years earlier, at Sotheby's, it made £35,000.
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