THE GUARDIAN
By Mark Brown
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| A detail from Rembrandt’s rapidly painted Study of the Head and Clasped Hands of a Young Man as Christ in Prayer. Photograph: Sotheby’s London/PA |
Two fingerprints almost certainly belonging to Rembrandt have been discovered on a small painting portraying Jesus, which is to be auctioned in London next month (
Dec. 5). The artwork, called
Study of the Head and Clasped Hands of a Young Man as Christ in Prayer, a rapidly painted oil sketch on an oak panel, is coming to the market for the first time in 60 years and is estimated to fetch about £6m. George Gordon, the co-chair of
Sotheby’s old master paintings department, said it was not possible to 100% confirm the fingerprints belonged to Rembrandt because no comparable examples had ever been found. [
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