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2 Rembrandts have been hidden in a private collection for 200 years. Now they're headed to auction.


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Two recently rediscovered Rembrandt paintings will be up for auction at Christie's in London next month, expected together to fetch between about $6.3 million and $10 million. They have not been seen in public since they were last auctioned off at Christie's – nearly 200 years ago. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rembrandts-auction-rediscovered-christies-200-years-after-sold/

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I had a friend who owned an art gallery in Los Angeles.  In his collection was a painting he believed to be a "lost" Rembrandt painting of the Ethiopian eunuch being baptized. He took it to the Rembrandt certifying authorities in Europe. Unfortunately, they rejected it as authentic, believing it to be done by a copyist or someone in his studio. Still a very interesting piece since there was/is no known work of Rembrandt on that subject. 

Sometime after his disappointment, an art scholar employed by a California university contacted him. He offered to help overturn the judgment of the Rembrandt authorities for a percentage of the final sale price. The gratuity, in those days, would have still amounted to hundreds of thousands of $$$.

Another time in San Francisco, a gallery mounted an exhibition of Rembrandt engravings. I went to the showing and became interested in two items. They were priced at such and such. When I asked the gallery owner for a provenance [history of ownership], his countenance changed, he stammered a bit, then said he could provide one but the price would go up.

I wondered why I should be expected to pay more for some assurance that he wasn't simply doing high end copying in a back room of his gallery?  I guess there would be added expense for providing some phony documentation to "authenticate" some fraudulent engravings. I passed on the purchase, which I couldn't afford anyway. 

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