London's National Gallery purchases a painting by an unknown artist for $20M

3 giuliomagnifico 2 5/1/2025, 6:44:49 PM theartnewspaper.com ↗

Comments (2)

jfengel · 1h ago

Original headline: "London's National Gallery buys mysterious altarpiece for $20m"

The artist is literally unknown, not just "not yet famous", which is how I first read the HN headline. It's centuries old.

giuliomagnifico · 17m ago

Oh yes maybe my fault, I meant unknown as really unknown, not “less famous”.