A portray newly revealed to be by J. M. W. Turner has surfaced in a personal Austrian assortment and is now up on the market at a Viennese gallery for €38 million ($41 million).
A model of Venice, Seen from the Canale della Giudecca, an 1840 portray housed at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, the piece was confirmed as an genuine Turner after in depth evaluation by European researchers as a part of an unbiased examine printed earlier this yr.
Vienna’s Artziwna gallery oversaw the evaluation. In October 2024, historians from the Belvedere Museum and the Vienna Academy of Superb Arts confirmed the portray’s origins.
Painted in 1845, the work is believed to have been in Austria because the Fifties. Its present proprietor, whose identify was not disclosed as a part of the examine, bought it in 2005. The unnamed collector loaned the piece in 2022, then commissioned the examine after suspecting it might be an unique Turner.
Within the examine printed by Artziwna, researchers mentioned that they consider their findings affirm Turner is the work’s creator. However in addition they wrote that they weren’t profitable in attracting different worldwide specialists to peer-review their findings.
“We have been unable to win different established Turner specialists for our analysis,” the gallery’s director, George Ziwna, mentioned in a foreword included within the publication. All inquiries to the Tate museum community in London to debate the work went unanswered, he mentioned.
Turner’s work have for years commanded report costs in public sale. His public sale report was set by Rome (from Mount Aventine), which bought for £30.3 million ($47.6 million) at Sotheby’s in 2014.
