A discussion of a lion by Dutch painter Rembrandt fetched a similar $17.8 million in New York, an amount that will go to Panthera, an organization dedicated to protecting rescued felines.
Part titled A young lion is resting (Joven león descansando), slightly exceeded the price estimated by the auction house Sotheby’s, which was between 15 and 20 million dollars.
The current record of discussion of Rembrandt in this case is from 2000, when Bulwark De Rose and Windmill De Smeerpot, Amsterdam (c. 1649-1652) fetched $3.7 million at Christie’s New York.
That was the star of Sotheby’s first annual “Old Masters” sale, which sells paintings by European artists from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 19th for the best place, and with which it hopes this year make $100 million.
The work below is now the only animal representation by Rembrandt that remains forever in the hands of a particular person and has given by American businessman and philanthropist Thomas Kaplan.
Gregory Rubinstein, head of Sotheby’s ancient masters studies department, told EFE that this is the first “truly significant” study by Rembrandt to go to auction in less than 25 years.
In his work, the painter shows a lion crawling on the surface, but seems ready to attack, conveying a combination of calmness and intensity through it, according to Sotheby’s. It is believed that the Dutch painter represented the cat inside the final decade of the 1630s and the beginning of the 1740s.
A person takes a photo of ‘Young Lion Descansando’ by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. Photo: EFE/ Ángel Colmenares
The artist created several such pieces that were “necessary” to deepen his understanding of the world and his ability to incorporate its elements into his compositions right at home.
Panthera, a state organization dedicated to protect cats and save their ecosystemsis an essential paper when auctioning this item, so 100% of the proceeds will be allocated to the accounting entity.
According to Panthera, lion populations have fallen 90% in the last century, from 200,000 to just 20,000, and more than 40% of all saved cat species are at risk of extinction.
“The young lion is resting There is a deliberate parallel between Rembrandt’s 17th-century musings and today’s accelerated biodiversity crisis, wondering whether future generations will see lions as living animals or historical representations,” Panthera writes on its website.
So Rembrandt’s work started to talk about him “Extinction, legacy and what we do and we feel when something iconic disappears,” says the organization.
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