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A master piece from Sandro Botticelli is about to come to auction and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering $80 million estimate, despite the pandemic.
Botticelli's 15th-century portrait of a nobleman in "Young Man Holding a Roundel" is the highlight of Sotheby's Masters Week sale series in New York.
Christopher Apostle, who has for more than three decades handled Old Masters and is now head of the division, says "a picture of his quality and this impact, this beauty, really hasn't been on the market in many years."
Opportunities to acquire a Botticelli - the artist behind such masterpieces as "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus" - are very rare and Apostle is confident the painting will sell for a sum close to its $80 million estimate.
Other highlights of the auctions include a rare biblical masterpiece by Rembrandt van Rijn and the marble sculpture of Autumn by Gian Lorenzo and Pietro Bernini.
Apostle calls Rembrandt's Abraham and the Angels a "nearly perfect" painting.

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