Canova’s ‘Recumbent Magdalena’ – AFPĭonald Johnston, International Director of Sculpture at Christie’s, adds: “The rediscovery of Canova’s lost masterpiece is very exciting and a highlight of my career of more than 30 years. The rediscovery of the ‘Magdalena Yacente’ puts an end to a story worthy of a novel». This work has been sought after by scholars for decades, making the discovery of fundamental importance to the history of collecting and the history of art. Mario Guderzo, noted Canova scholar and former director of the Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova, comments: « It is a miracle that this exceptional masterpiece by Antonio Canova, the ‘Magdalena recumbent’, has been found 200 years after its completion. On view for the first time at Christie’s London headquarters tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, it will tour New York, where it will be on view from April 8 to 13, and Hong Kong, from May 27 to June 1, before returning to London for a three-week exhibition in June. Having become a “sleeping beauty” of the art world in the last hundred years – her authorship of hers is gradually forgotten and her whereabouts unknown – this remarkable sculpture of Mary Magdalene in ecstasy was commissioned by the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.

It has an estimate between 5 and 8 million pounds. The living room Christie’s de Londres It will be put up for auction on July 7. One historical rediscoverythe ‘Recumbent Magdalena’ by Antonio Canova (1757-1822), made in marble between 18, is the lost masterpiece of the Italian titan, which he completed shortly before his death.

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