The plumber’s Old Master: Three reasons the survival of this Titian coming to auction is remarkable
Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian, painted ‘Saint Margaret’ with the help of this workshop in around mid-1560s. It depicts Margaret of Antioch, the virgin martyr who escapes from Satan, pictured as a dragon. It is now being offered at Sotheby’s in New York on February 1 with an estimate $2-3m.
But some are amazed it has survived at all.
1 It was owned by the doomed king, Charles I: Charles I…