Subject of art fakery debate, 'Lost Caravaggio' unveiled before US$170M auction
A painting, believed to be the second version of 'Judith Beheading Holofernes' now named the 'Lost Caravaggio,' by Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The naked warrior grimaces as a graceful woman methodically slices off his head with a sword.
French art expert Eric Turquin has been looking after the life-size canvas since its discovery during pipe repair work in the attic of an old house in the southwestern French city of Toulouse in 2014. His arresting interplay of shadows and radiant light heralded the onset of the brooding Baroque style that flourished for 150 more years and produced the likes of Rubens and Vermeer.
He was "notorious for brawling, even in a time and place when such behaviour was commonplace," the Caravaggio Foundation writes. Finson was also an art dealer who may have had an ulterior motive in making Caravaggio duplicates and then selling them off to wealthy merchants in his native Bruges and Amsterdam.
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