A forgotten work of William Turner for 38 million euros | Culture | EUROtoday

A Viennese gallery has launched this Monday on the market, for a value of 38 million euros (41 million {dollars}), a canvas of the English painter William Turner (1775-1851) that had been given by lacking and was found final yr in a non-public Austrian assortment. This is one other model of the Turner Classic Venice, Seen from the Canale della Giudecca, with the Santa Maria della Salute Churchwhich hangs on the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, because the Artziwna gallery ensures in a press release.

This artwork home has been the coordinator of a scientific investigation, carried out by the present proprietor of the oil, which final yr attributed to Turner the authorship of the work. “The scientific analysis led to a sensational finding” final fall in Vienna, remembers the gallery within the notice. In the 50 -page examine, printed in October 2024 beneath title JOSEPH Mallord William Turner. A rediscoverya crew of specialists concluded that solely Turner might be the creator of that work, dated round 1840. The gallery spokesman, Andreas Jilly, then assured the EFE company that the attribution to Turner is supported by a number of and exhaustive scientific and historical-artistic evaluation.

Although it has not been fully traced some phases of its origin and jail, particularly the preliminary and its journey to Vienna, it’s estimated that the canvas (about 60 by 90 centimeters and 180 years outdated) “would have been in Austria for the reason that Nineteen Fifties ″, based on Jilly. The present proprietor, whose identify has not been revealed, purchased it in 2005 They had been rising the suspicions that it might be an autograph portray of Turner, commissioned the aforementioned analysis.

Turner, who was born in 1775, was probably the most well-known painter of the Great Britain of the nineteenth century and is taken into account one of the crucial necessary precursors of French impressionism. Venice, town that portrays within the portray, is one in every of its most typical protagonists: it drew greater than a thousand pencil drawings and painted about 150 watercolors and dozens of oils within the metropolis of the channels.