Cimabue, a 24 million euro auction

The record was in the air, since it was found in the kitchen of a house in Compiegne, in the Oise department of the Haute-France region (for the old owner she was just an old icon). And as expected the Mocked christ, small table (25.8 cm by 20.3) on a gold background by Cimabue, one of the eight panels of a dismembered diptych, was sold in the afternoon of October 27 from Acteon to Senlis, north of Paris, for the record price of € 24,180,000 (including taxes).

The initial estimate was "only" of 4-6 million euros: now after a heated upside dispute between eight buyers it has become the most expensive "primitive" painting sold so far during an auction in the world. And at the same time it makes it the seventh most expensive ancient painting after the Salvator Mundi attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (sold by Christie's in New York in November 2017 for $ 450.3 million), The massacre of the Innocents by Pieter Paul Rubens, a work by Pontormo, a work by Rembrandt, a work by Raphael and a work by Canaletto.