The famous Rembrandt Lion will sell to help live lions
American billionaire and collector Thomas chaplain has announced the sale Rembrandt drawings Resting young lionreports the portal The Artspaper. With funds raised, hoping for tens of millions of US dollars, it will help keep wild animals, specifically large cats.
Drawing Resting young lionwhich was exhibited in Amsterdam this week, could also reach a record price for paper work next year. The most expensive auctioned so far is otherwise Rafael The head of the young apostle From around 1519, which was sold at Sotheby’s auction house in 2012 for $ 48 million at the time.
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« Keeping wildlife is the only passion that goes beyond my love for Rembrandt – and I want to attract more people to this goal, » said billionaire, a well -known collector of Dutch art of the 17th century.
Drawing Resting young lioncreated by the Dutch Baroque giant in 1638-42, is just on display at the exhibition of the Chaplain Collection at the H’Aart Amsterdam Museum. It is a museum previously called Hermitage Amsterdam, but after a Russian invasion of Ukraine, he interrupted links to the venerable St. Peterburg Ermitle and has since been independent.
Kaplan’s exhibition entitled From Rembrandt to Vermeer: Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection It will be on view until 24. August. He named his collection around the city where Rembrandt was born.
When it is The artspaper asked if the sale of his Rembrandt drawing could exceed $ 10 million, he immediately replied: « Multiple this amount. » The chaplain, the president of the New York company Electrum Group, founded the nature conservation organization Panther. It is involved in the preservation of seven types of large cats: cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, lions, pum, snow leopards and tigers.
