LACMA to Offer Two Works at Sotheby’s

Published: January 12, 2009

Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Portrait of a Bearded Young Man" (1518)

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NEW YORK— The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is offering its only Lucas Cranach the Elder painting at Sotheby's January 29 Old Masters sale, the ArtsJournal blog Modern Art Notes reports. The 16.5-by-11-inch work, Portrait of a Bearded Young Man (1518), was given to LACMA in 1991 by Mr. and Mrs. R. Stanton Avery. Sotheby's has given it a pre-sale estimate of $600–800,000.

The museum has also entered the painting Saint Cecilia (1775), by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in the sale. It was donated by William Randolph Hearst in 1949 and is the larger of two works by the artist in LACMA's collection. Sotheby's has estimated it at $700–900,000.

Both paintings are listed on Sotheby's Web site as being "sold by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to benefit future acquisitions."

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