Rare Renaissance masterpiece hidden for 70 years could fetch £5m at auction
The Guardian reports the first Altdorfer painting to reach auction since 1980: a roughly 1520 pure landscape oil, unseen in public for 70 years in a private Swiss collection, that Sotheby's in London sells on 9 December at an estimate of £3m to £5m. Sotheby's George Gordon calls the small densely wooded scene one of the most exciting discoveries imaginable in the old masters field and deems Altdorfer the most significant German Renaissance artist after Dürer.
