{"id":305821,"date":"2025-11-25T11:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305821\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:36:16","slug":"a-drawing-said-to-be-by-michelangelo-will-go-to-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305821\/","title":{"rendered":"A Drawing Said to Be by Michelangelo Will Go to Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/michelangelo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michelangelo\" data-tag=\"michelangelo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michelangelo<\/a> (1475\u20131564), will be offered for sale at Christie\u2019s auction house in New York in February. Christie\u2019s estimates the work to sell between $1.5 million and $2 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe piece came to light when Giada Damen, a specialist in Old Master drawings at Christie\u2019s, noticed it among a batch of online inquiries from members of the public. The client had noted that the artist was Michelangelo on the form; however, as Damon told the New York Times, she gets a lot of inquiries about works purported to be by Renaissance masters.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/St-Regis-Saadiyat-Island-Resort_Home-of-Sothebys-Collectors-Week_beach-view-2.jpg\" alt=\"A sprawling beach complex.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdded to this, Renaissance drawings can be difficult to authenticate, as they are rarely signed and often faked. Nevertheless, Damon thought it possible the work was genuine. Now, after research into the drawing\u2019s provenance, a technical analysis of its support, and comparison with known sketches in museums, Christie\u2019s has declared it a study for Michelangelo\u2019s masterwork, the frescoed ceiling of the Vatican\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/sistine-chapel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sistine-chapel\" data-tag=\"sistine-chapel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sistine Chapel<\/a> in Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIf true, the drawing is incredibly rare. Michelangelo worked on the Sistine Chapel for four years from 1508 to 1512, and in the process is thought to have made thousands of preparatory sketches using live models. Of these, only a few survive, and only one\u2014two, if this is counted as one of them\u2014remain in private hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOn Christie\u2019s website, the auction house notes the drawing\u2019s similarity to a sheet of Michelangelo\u2019s sketches for the figure of the Libyan Sibyl on the Sistine Chapel ceiling; that work is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475\u20131564), will be offered for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,21695,356,75,112592,95167,137070],"class_list":{"0":"post-305821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-christies","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-michelangelo","17":"tag-renaissance-art","18":"tag-sistine-chapel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}