19th century paintings and sculptures The Department selects works of art that date from the beginning of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th century, ranging from Italian to foreign production, particular emphasis is given to the protagonists of the Neapolitan nineteenth century, a particularly flourishing parenthesis for painting and sculpture southern.
Sales take place every six months, with large dedicated sections within our catalogs and through the dynamic channel of timed online auctions.
In 2007, the world auction record was set for a work by Vincenzo Migliaro, the canvas Seduction, which was sold for €190,000.00 starting from an auction starting price of 60,000/80,000; a price never reached by the nineteenth-twentieth century Neapolitan artist, known for genre scenes. Among the auctions by foreign authors, it is worth mentioning the very rare canvas by the orientalist painter Fabius Brest, Glimpse of Constantinople, sold in November 2016 for €136,000.00.