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First Look: Gentileschi’s Danaë Comes to Sotheby’s

New York | January 2016

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After enthralling visitors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the last two years, Orazio Gentileschi’s ‘Danaë' will grace Sotheby’s New York to lead the Master Paintings Evening Sale on 28 January 2016. This undisputed masterpiece is one of the most important Italian Baroque paintings to come to market since World War II.

Master Paintings Evening Sale

28 January 2016 | 6:00 PM EST | New York

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