"Turquin Caravaggio": Not Toulouse, but Fifth Avenue

Published on 27 June 2019, by Carole Blumenfeld

In the end, the "Turquin Caravaggio" was not put on sale at the Toulouse Corn Exchange on Thursday as planned. In the late afternoon of Tuesday 25 June, the Marc Labarbe auction house and the Turquin company announced that the painting would be sold to a foreign buyer in a private transaction.

Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio (1571-1610), Judith and Holofernes (ca. 1607), oil on canvas, 144 x 173.5 cm.

This sale is covered by a confidentiality clause, meaning that the painting, with an estimated worth of €100-150 M, has been sold for a price that shall remain secret. On Tuesday, Éric Turquin only revealed one…

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