Artemisia Gentileschi Self Portrait coming up at Christie's New York
November 7 2025
Picture: Paul Jeromack @pjeromack
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
It's that exciting time of the year when the big sales tend to bring out previews of Old Master highlights (usually hanging in adjacent galleries) from the upcoming sale seasons. Most of these usually fly very far under the radar, without any online presence from any of the auction house websites whatsoever. This means it's up to followers on Instagram, if we're not lucky enough to be in the salerooms at the time, to spread the news of what's to come.
Journalist Paul Jeromack has published (and given his consent for us to use) an image of this very beguiling Self Portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi which is coming up at Christie's New York on 4th February 2026. Their wall label explains it shows the artist in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (like the NG's painting acquired in 2018 for £3.6m) and is perhaps one of her earliest self portraits. Infra-red scans also purport to show changes in the composition, which sounds exciting too. A quick Google explains that the painting has more recently been on loan to the National Museum of Norway from a private collection.
It will be offered with an estimate of $2.5m - $3.5m.
