LONDON: An oil painting of a bullfight by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya is expected to sell for up to $10 million in December, Sotheby’s said Oct.5.
The auction house said the work, painted for Goya’s friend Joacquin Maria de Ferrer in Paris in 1824, four years before the artist’s death at age 82, is being sold by a descendant of De Ferrer’s. The owner’s name was not made public.
Goya did very few oils of bullfighting, and as this one is the best, and he is an artist who is rarely on the market, any major ant museum in the world would be keen to have it,” said art historian Hugh Brigstocke.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 16, 1992
