Major Old Master sale in France as New York’s Metropolitan Museum buys late-Gothic painting for €5m
An Old Master painting by a mid-14th century painter who was active in Bohemia drew dramatic competition at a small auction house in France last week. It was knocked down at €5m (£4.27m) to a dealer acting for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The anonymous painter working in the International Gothic style is known as The Master of Vissi Brod…