NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will present a week of extraordinary Old Master Paintings, Sculptures, and Antiquities sales, over two live auctions, 9 and 10 June at Rockefeller Plaza, and an online sale, 2-16 June. On 9 June, Old Masters | New Perspectives: Masterworks from the Alana Collection, offers one of the most important groups of Italian Renaissance works to come to market in a generation. The following day, 10 June, the Old Masters sale features works by Northern Masters, women artists, and two pictures subject to restitution to the heirs of their owners. For the first time, Christie’s is offering an Old Masters sale entirely without reserve, online 2-16 June.

NEW PERSPECTIVES: MASTERWORKS FROM THE ALANA COLLECTION

Leading the sale is a superb and intimate example of early Florentine Renaissance painting, Fra Angelico’s Saint Dominic and the Stigmatization of Saint Francis (estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000). This picture, whose companion wing is in the Detroit Museum of Arts, was included in a 2019 exhibition dedicated to Fra Angelico at the Prado in Madrid. Other highlights of the sale include, The Crucifixion with the Madonna and Saint John the Evangelist by an Associate of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (estimate: $1,000,000-1,500,000); The Madonna and Child painted from life by Orazio Gentileschi (estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000); A drinking and musical party by leading Caravaggist, Bartolomeo Manfredi (estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000); and Portrait of a young man by El Greco (estimate: $3,000,000-5,000,000).

François de Poortere, Christie’s Head of Old Master Paintings, comments, “This remarkable group of Italian Renaissance paintings, sculptures, and antiquities is a treasure trove, masterfully assembled with deep connoisseurship. We are excited to present this storied collection of historic importance juxtaposed against the backdrop of present day, which we believe creates a wonderful opportunity to spark dialogue between how modern and contemporary art practices have been informed by masters from generations past.”

OLD MASTERS: This various owner sale features works that complement the Alana Collection, with a focus on Northern pictures. A highlight of the sale is The Tower of Babel by Pieter Brueghel The Younger (estimate $1,500,000 – 2,500,000). Salomon van Ruysdael’s View of Beverwijk (estimate $500,000-700,000) was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1982, and subsequently returned to the heirs of Ferenc Chorin, who suffered persecution by the Nazi regime. The sale also has many fine works by women artists, including Roses, lilies, an iris and other flowers in an earthenware vase by Carla Peeters (estimate $1,200,000-1,800,000); and Saint Cecilia by Artemisia Gentileschi (estimate $300,000-500,000).

OLD MASTERS: NO RESERVES spans five centuries of European artistic production, and the entire sale will be offered without reserves. This is a rare opportunity to acquire works from the Byzantine period through the Baroque and beyond at accessible prices. Highlights of the sale include: Jan Wijnants, An Italianate wooded landscape with a river (estimate $30,000-50,000) and Gerrit Van Vucht, A Vanitas with books, a skull, a candle and various objects on a table (estimate $20,000-30,000).