Marie Gicquel 9:54 a.m., January 3, 2023
After a good year 2022, 2023 looks just as promising for the art market with in particular the sale of the collection of the Fisch Davidson couple and the painting "The head of Jean-Baptiste presented to Salomé" by Rubens.
Despite a complicated economic context, the art market is doing well.
Last year, exceptional sales took place like the portrait of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol at 195 million euros or a 1955 Mercedes at 135 million dollars.
The year 2023 promises to be just as good for auction houses.
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The Fish-Davidson Collection
The art world is getting off to a good start this year with its eyes riveted in New York on the works of collector couple Fisch Davidson.
Their divorce sounds the resale of this rare collection, estimated at 115 million euros.
At least that was needed for the most important catalog of Baroque paintings in the world.
"We are in biblical and religious subjects. It is a fairly intellectual collection", describes Pierre Motte, director of development at Sotheby's in Paris.
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24 million euros for Rubens
Among the works, a painting by Rubens lost for centuries and then found some thirty years ago.
A very strong canvas with a more evocative title "The head of Jean-Baptiste presented to Salomé".
"It is characterized by a very raw realism since we see the body of Saint John the Baptist with his head cut off. Rubens is not unaware of any detail of this decapitation. It makes a very strong work which could please art lovers contemporary", continues Pierre Motte.
To hope to expose this terrifying but exceptional scene in your living room, it will be necessary to pay at least 24 million euros.