Sandro Botticelli

Italian | 1445 - 1510

Sandro Botticelli was an Italian Old Masters painter who was born in 1445. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fitzwilliam Museum have featured Sandro Botticelli's work in the past.Sandro Botticelli's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 9 USD to 92,184,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2003 the record price for this artist at auction is 92,184,000 USD for Portrait of a young man holding a roundel, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2021. In the past 12 months, their paintings have averaged 738,539 USD.Sandro Botticelli has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, The Guardian and Hyperallergic. The most recent article is New York Old Masters Sales Fall Just Short of Expectations at Christie’s and Sotheby’s amid ‘Tough’ Market written for The Art Newspaper in February 2025. The artist died in 1510.

Artist's alternative names: Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi

At Auction

Notable Lots

THE MADONNA AND CHILD

By Sandro Botticelli

+121%

above mid-estimate

The Madonna and Child with the Crown of Thorns and three nails

By Sandro Botticelli

+98%

above mid-estimate

MADONNA AND CHILD, SEATED BEFORE A CLASSICAL WINDOW

By Sandro Botticelli

+72%

above mid-estimate

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Recent Auction Results

Madonna del Magnificat

By Sandro Botticelli

Arcadia Auction House

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist

By Sandro Botticelli

KCM Galleries

Framed "The Birth of Venus" print by Botticelli

By Sandro Botticelli

Orrill's Auction

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Current Exhibitions

The Neverending Story: Part II

Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz

St. Moritz | Switzerland

Feb 15,2025 - Mar 29,2025

Hyde House and the Permanent Collection

The Hyde Collection

Glens Falls | New York | USA

May 01,2022 - Jun 01,2050

Past Exhibitions

Masterpieces From The Borghese Gallery

Musée Jacquemart-André

8e | Paris | France

Sep 06,2024 - Jan 05,2025

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Articles

New York Old Masters Sales Fall Just Short of Expectations at Christie’s and Sotheby’s amid ‘Tough’ Market

The Art Newspaper 07/02/2025

At this year’s winter auctions, the two big houses saw ‘a mixed bag and mixed results’.

How the Courtaulds Built London’s Greatest Impressionist Collection

Daily Art Magazine 06/02/2025

In January 1889, after a heated argument with his friend Paul Gauguin that led him to cut off part of his left ear, Vincent van Gogh painted one of the most iconic self-portraits in the history of art.

Botticelli’s Primavera Review – Lucid Study of a Renaissance Masterpiece

The Guardian 29/01/2025

Howard Burton’s scholarly look at the companion painting to The Birth of Venus provides a calm and instructive commentary.

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Coverage

“ ..Botticelli's paintings had not only become the subject of scholarly art-historical inquiry, coveted objects for collectors, and the proud highlights of museum displays, but also the fountainhead of artistic... ”
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Gemäldegalerie

“ ..Botticelli's sophisticated palette is translated into a delicate interplay of black and white, the original monumental "wall power" of his panels is transformed into studies of compositional detail, invitingly... ”
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Gemäldegalerie

“ .. Botticelli’s painting, a depiction of the nude, exemplifies these values in which the verisimilitude and beauty of the human condition as an ideal form is achieved by the finest artists in early modern... ”
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University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong

“ .. Largest, most important display of Botticelli’s works in the US... ”
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“ ..Botticelli’s instantly recognizable style, characterized by strong contours, lyrical poses, and transparent flowing drapery, was influenced both by Antique models and the courtly preferences of his patrons... ”
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston