Lucretia<\/em>, ca. 1627<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-10.24.33-AM-e1630074338302.png?w=800\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Artcurial<\/span><\/div>\n\nSold for $6.1 million<\/strong><\/p>\nIn 2019, during an Old Masters sale at Paris auction house Artcurial, Gentileschi\u2019s painting\u00a0Lucretia\u00a0<\/em>sold for $6.1 million, more than eight times its pre-sale estimate. It depicts a Roman noblewoman who died by suicide after being raped. Gentileschi\u2019s rendition shows a half-naked Lucretia preparing to stab a dagger into her chest. The dramatic painting came to the sale after having been newly rediscovered in a private collection in Lyon, France, where it had remained for four decades. In April 2021, the painting changed hands again, this time going to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles for an undisclosed sum. \u201cHer achievement as a painter of powerful and dramatic history subjects is all the more remarkable for the abuse and prejudice that she suffered in her personal life,\u201d Getty director Timothy Potts told\u00a0the\u00a0Los Angeles Times.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n2<\/span><\/p>\nSelf-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria<\/em>, ca. 1615\u201317<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Catherine-e1630083312207.jpeg?w=598\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for: $2.1 million<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen\u00a0Lucretia<\/em>\u00a0set a new record in 2019, it more than doubled the artist\u2019s previous record price at auction of \u20ac1.8 million ($2.1 million), set in December 2017 when\u00a0Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria\u00a0<\/em>(ca. 1615\u201317) was sold by Paris auctioneer Christophe Joron Derem. The work went for nearly five times its \u20ac400,000 ($472,800) estimate. Portraying herself as the 4th-century martyr for whom the painting is titled, Gentileschi completed it during her stint in Florence. A similar version by the artist resides at the Uffizi Gallery. In the Paris sale, old masters dealers Marco Voena and Fabrizio Moretti won the bid for the prized work. Just six months later, the pair sold it to the National Gallery in London for a higher sum of \u00a33.6 million ($4.8 million), making it the first work by a female artist added to the museum\u2019s collection in nearly three decades. Questions about its history remain, however, given that painting\u2019s ownership record is unknown prior to the 1940s. When it bought the work, the National Gallery added it to a list of works that may have been \u201cimproperly acquired\u201d during World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n3<\/span><\/p>\nLucretia<\/em>, ca. 1630<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-1.20.21-PM-e1630085287960.png?w=800\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\nSold for: $2.16 million<\/strong><\/p>\nAnother painting of\u00a0Lucretia\u00a0<\/em>sold in 2018 at Dorotheum in Vienna to an Australian collection for \u20ac1.88 million ($2.16 million). The result tripled the painting\u2019s pre-sale estimate. Before the sale, the painting had resided in the same European collection since the mid-19th century and had never before been exhibited publicly. Gentileschi was known to return to certain subjects throughout her career; Lucretia, an ancient Roman woman who died by suicide after being raped, is also depicted in the most expensive work by the artist ever to have sold on the block.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n4<\/span><\/p>\nTriumph of Galatea<\/em>, ca. 1650<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-27-at-11.01.47-AM-e1630076660206.png?w=768\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nPhoto<\/span>\u00a0:\u00a0<\/span>Christie’s<\/span><\/div>\n\nSold for: $2.1 million<\/strong><\/p>\nGentileschi\u2019s\u00a0Triumph of<\/em>\u00a0Galatea<\/em>\u00a0sold at a Christie\u2019s Old Masters sale in November 2020 for $2.1 million, against an estimate of $1 million. The painting depicts a scene from Ovid\u2019s\u00a0Metamorphoses\u00a0<\/i>in which the water nymph Galatea is carried in a scalloped shell by two dolphins through the river Acis. It was the second-most expensive Old Masters lot of the year, behind Lucas Cranach the Elder\u2019s\u00a0Lucretia<\/em>, which sold from the Brooklyn Museum\u2019s collection for $4.2 million. The sale was a signal that Gentileschi\u2019s market is now rivaling that of brand-name male artists who have long dominated the Old Masters category. Before its sale last year, the painting was purchased at Christie\u2019s in 2007, when it was attributed to Bernardino Cavallino. It wasn\u2019t until 2012 that historians reattributed the work to Gentileschi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n\n\n5<\/span><\/p>\nMary Magdalene in Ecstasy<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/marymagdag.jpeg?w=800\")
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<\/p>\nSold for $6.1 million<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2019, during an Old Masters sale at Paris auction house Artcurial, Gentileschi\u2019s painting\u00a0Lucretia\u00a0<\/em>sold for $6.1 million, more than eight times its pre-sale estimate. It depicts a Roman noblewoman who died by suicide after being raped. Gentileschi\u2019s rendition shows a half-naked Lucretia preparing to stab a dagger into her chest. The dramatic painting came to the sale after having been newly rediscovered in a private collection in Lyon, France, where it had remained for four decades. In April 2021, the painting changed hands again, this time going to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles for an undisclosed sum. \u201cHer achievement as a painter of powerful and dramatic history subjects is all the more remarkable for the abuse and prejudice that she suffered in her personal life,\u201d Getty director Timothy Potts told\u00a0the\u00a0Los Angeles Times.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for: $2.1 million<\/strong><\/p>\n When\u00a0Lucretia<\/em>\u00a0set a new record in 2019, it more than doubled the artist\u2019s previous record price at auction of \u20ac1.8 million ($2.1 million), set in December 2017 when\u00a0Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria\u00a0<\/em>(ca. 1615\u201317) was sold by Paris auctioneer Christophe Joron Derem. The work went for nearly five times its \u20ac400,000 ($472,800) estimate. Portraying herself as the 4th-century martyr for whom the painting is titled, Gentileschi completed it during her stint in Florence. A similar version by the artist resides at the Uffizi Gallery. In the Paris sale, old masters dealers Marco Voena and Fabrizio Moretti won the bid for the prized work. Just six months later, the pair sold it to the National Gallery in London for a higher sum of \u00a33.6 million ($4.8 million), making it the first work by a female artist added to the museum\u2019s collection in nearly three decades. Questions about its history remain, however, given that painting\u2019s ownership record is unknown prior to the 1940s. When it bought the work, the National Gallery added it to a list of works that may have been \u201cimproperly acquired\u201d during World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for: $2.16 million<\/strong><\/p>\n Another painting of\u00a0Lucretia\u00a0<\/em>sold in 2018 at Dorotheum in Vienna to an Australian collection for \u20ac1.88 million ($2.16 million). The result tripled the painting\u2019s pre-sale estimate. Before the sale, the painting had resided in the same European collection since the mid-19th century and had never before been exhibited publicly. Gentileschi was known to return to certain subjects throughout her career; Lucretia, an ancient Roman woman who died by suicide after being raped, is also depicted in the most expensive work by the artist ever to have sold on the block.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n Sold for: $2.1 million<\/strong><\/p>\n Gentileschi\u2019s\u00a0Triumph of<\/em>\u00a0Galatea<\/em>\u00a0sold at a Christie\u2019s Old Masters sale in November 2020 for $2.1 million, against an estimate of $1 million. The painting depicts a scene from Ovid\u2019s\u00a0Metamorphoses\u00a0<\/i>in which the water nymph Galatea is carried in a scalloped shell by two dolphins through the river Acis. It was the second-most expensive Old Masters lot of the year, behind Lucas Cranach the Elder\u2019s\u00a0Lucretia<\/em>, which sold from the Brooklyn Museum\u2019s collection for $4.2 million. The sale was a signal that Gentileschi\u2019s market is now rivaling that of brand-name male artists who have long dominated the Old Masters category. Before its sale last year, the painting was purchased at Christie\u2019s in 2007, when it was attributed to Bernardino Cavallino. It wasn\u2019t until 2012 that historians reattributed the work to Gentileschi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\nSelf-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria<\/em>, ca. 1615\u201317<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nLucretia<\/em>, ca. 1630<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nTriumph of Galatea<\/em>, ca. 1650<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
<\/p>\nMary Magdalene in Ecstasy<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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