The Torment St AnthonyAnother reason to love Fort Worth? I think so. The Kimbell Art Museum is as good as they get, and considering the size of our city, you just can't ask for much more.
Here's a summary of the story pulled from the Fort Worth Business Press. Link following.
http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=10198Long held in private hands, apart from isolated showings during the 19th and 20th centuries, The Torment of St. Anthony has been hailed, by turns, as both a prototypical Michelangelo and as a work of questionable pedigree. The consensus today holds with Michelangelo.
A 2008 Sotheby’s auction in London offered the painting in a preliminary range of $200,000-$300,000. Once the acceptance of authenticity had spread, a bidding frenzy surged to approximately $2 million, paid by a New York-based dealer named Adam Williams. Williams cinched the authenticity further with a regimen of X-ray examinations, which revealed alterations that can only belong to a primary-source work-in-progress.
The painting will settle into a permanent home at Fort Worth’s Kimbell following a showing during the summer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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