A Viennese gallery has released this Monday for sale, for a price of 38 million euros (41 million dollars), a canvas of the English painter William Turner (1775-1851) that had been given by missing and was discovered last year in a private Austrian collection. This is another version of the Turner Classic Venice, Seen from the Canale della Giudecca, with the Santa Maria della Salute Churchwhich hangs at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, as the Artziwna gallery ensures in a statement.
This art house has been the coordinator of a scientific investigation, carried out by the current owner of the oil, which last year attributed to Turner the authorship of the work. “The scientific analysis led to a sensational finding” last fall in Vienna, recalls the gallery in the note. In the 50 -page study, published in October 2024 under title JOSEPH Mallord William Turner. A rediscoverya team of experts concluded that only Turner could be the creator of that work, dated around 1840. The gallery spokesman, Andreas Jilly, then assured the EFE agency that the attribution to Turner is supported by multiple and exhaustive scientific and historical-artistic analysis.
Although it has not been completely traced some phases of its origin and prison, especially the initial and its trip to Vienna, it is estimated that the canvas (about 60 by 90 centimeters and 180 years old) “would have been in Austria since the 1950s ″, according to Jilly. The current owner, whose name has not been revealed, bought it in 2005 They were growing the suspicions that it could be an autograph painting of Turner, commissioned the aforementioned research.
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 that portrays in the painting, is one of its most common protagonists: it drew more than a thousand pencil drawings and painted about 150 watercolors and dozens of oils in the city of the channels.