A museum in Spain says a painting that was once nearly sent to auction for the price of an iPhone has been confirmed as one of around 60 works by famous Italian painter Caravaggio. The Ecce Homo could be worth tens of millions of euros.
A painting that had been up for auction for just €1,500 has been confirmed as a lost work of Italian master Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Spain's Prado Museum says the work titled Ecce Homo - which means behold the man in Latin - was due to be auctioned in April 2021 as a painting by 17th-century Spanish artist Jose de Ribera.
'For our part, we are more than happy to be the stage to present this new unshown work of Caravaggio to the public and critics,' Prado Museum director Miguel Falomir said. He added since the 19th century it had been in the hands of a family in Madrid, who recently sold it to an individual who wanted it displayed in the Prado Museum and has not been identified.
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