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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)...
Jul 11, 2002 · Sotheby's London auctions Rubens painting Massacre of the Innocents to unnamed buyer for $76.7 million, third-highest price ever paid for painting at auction and highest ever for an old...
Oct 28, 2022 · The piece was recovered in 1987 and sold into a private collection in 1998. Now, more than 20 years later, it is back up for auction at Sotheby’s, where it’s expected to sell for up to $35 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
