Headless Mary Magdalen Old Master by Gentileschi takes more than five-times estimate at Vienna auction
A fragmented Old Master portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), with the head and shoulders of the sitter cut out, took a hammer price of €650,000 (£563,305) at Dorotheum.
Estimated at €100,00-150,000, it was the subject of a bidding battle at the evening auction in Vienn…