A Viennese gallery was published on Monday, for a price of 38 million euros (41 million dollars), a canvas of The English painter William Turner (1775-1851) which had been given as long as and was discovered last year in a private Austrian collection. This is another version of Turner Classic Venice, Seen from the Canale della Giudecca, with the Santa Maria della Salute Churchhanging in Victoria & Albert Museum of LondonAs the Artziwna Gallery assures in a declaration.
This art house was the coordinator of a scientific investigation, conducted by the current oil owner, who last year attributed the authorship of the work to Turner. “Scientific analysis led to a sensational discovery” last autumn in Vienna, recalls the gallery in the note. In the 50 -page study, published in October 2024 under the title JOseph Method William Turner. A rediscoveryA team of experts concluded that only Turner could be the creator of that work, dated around 1840. The spokesman for the gallery, Andreas Jilly, assured the Efe agency that the attribution to Turner is supported by a multiple scientific and historical-artistic analysis.
Although some phases of its origin and prison has not been completely traced, in particular the initial and its journey to Vienna, it is estimated that the canvas (about 60 for 90 centimeters and 180 years) “would have been in Austria by an autograph”, according to the editorial staff of Jilly. The current owner, whose name was not revealed, purchased in 2005. Belvedere And from the Academy of Plastic Arts of Vienna, they concluded that it is “a painted brother”, that is, another version, of the painting by Turner of the same name Exposed to London.
Turner, who was born in 1775, was the most famous painter of the Great Britain of the nineteenth century and is considered one of the most important precursors of French Impressionism. Venice, the city he interprets in the painting, is one of his most common protagonists: he has designed more than a thousand pencil drawings and has painted about 150 watercolors and dozens of oils in the city of channels.
