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Jul 11, 2002 · The Bond Street salesroom burst into applause after eight bidders fought to buy the work, ''The Massacre of the Innocents'' (1609-1611), a large, biblically inspired painting depicting the massacre...
Jan 15, 2021 · In July 2002, Rubens’s rediscovered painting Massacre of the Innocents, which depicts the Biblical scene of a violent massacre in Bethlehem, fetched a price of £49.5 million ($76.5 million) at ...
Oct 28, 2022 · This gory masterpiece by renowned Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens is a vivid take on a biblical story. But the painting itself is subject to another fascinating tale: For over two centuries, it...
The work was sold at auction at Sotheby's, London on July 10, 2002, for £49.5 million (C$117 million) to Canadian businessman and art collector Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet.
Jun 19, 2023 · Meanwhile the record for a Rubens work at auction is £49.5 million ($76.5 million) for Massacre of the Innocents (1609-11), sold at Sotheby’s London in 2002.
Oct 25, 2022 · That’s how much the most valuable painting by Rubens fetched at auction in 2002. “Massacre of the Innocents” was purchased by late Canadian billionaire Kenneth Thomson.
The Massacre of the Innocents was sold at auction in 2002 for a record £49.5 million or $76.7 million at Sotheby’s, London and donated by the buyer, Canadian businessman Kenneth Thompson, to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
After the large-scale panel painting by Rubens (199 x 302 cm.) in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. no. AP 572) 1 - his second treatment of the subject, painted in circa 1638.
Oct 12, 2019 · The inspiration for the exhibition, as well as its centrepiece, is Rubens's important masterpiece: The Massacre of the Innocents, gifted to the AGO by Canadian collector Kenneth Thomson.
Jul 15, 2002 · On Wednesday 10 July 2002, “The Massacre of the Innocents” by Peter Paul RUBENS became the most expensive old master painting ever sold at auction. It was only recently identified as a Rubens having previously been attributed to the lesser-known Jan van den Hoecke.
