The Facts
Lempertz announced its Old Masters and 19th Century auction, scheduled for November 21, 2026. The sale will reunite two panels from a Johann Koerbecke altar wing that were separated in 1936: the Annunciation (est. €200,000–300,000) and the Vision of St Bernard (est. €200,000–300,000). Other highlights include Ambrosius Benson's 'Madonna and Child' (est. €220,000–280,000) from the A. Alfred Taubman collection, a rare late work by the Master of Frankfurt (est. €60,000–80,000), and Goossen van der Weyden's 'Rosary Madonna' (est. €180,000–220,000). The auction also includes two works from the circle of Tilman Riemenschneider, a limestone Virgin and Child from northern France, c. 1325/1350, and a landscape by Jacob Philipp Hackert.
The Signal
The reunification of the Koerbecke panels, previously displayed at Kolumba and the Bavarian State Painting Collections, offers a rare market opportunity for a historically significant work divided for nine decades. The sale reflects sustained demand for Old Master works with notable provenance, museum exhibition history, and cultural cross-currents, such as the van der Weyden Madonna with Iberian links. For collectors, these lots combine art-historical rarity with documented preservation of lost landscapes, as in Hackert's view of the drained Lago di Bientina.
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- Artists: Johann Koerbecke, Ambrosius Benson, Master of Frankfurt, Goossen van der Weyden, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Tilman Riemenschneider, Jan Brueghel the Elder, Fede Galizia, Christoffel van den Berghe, Abraham Brueghel, Abraham Mignon, Marten van Cleve, Gérard de Lairesse, Konstantin Gorbatov, Joseph Stieler
- People: Georges Hulin de Loo, A. Alfred Taubman, Klaus Ertz, Flavio Caroli
- Auction Houses: Lempertz
- Galleries: Thos. Agnew & Sons
- Museums: Kolumba, Bavarian State Painting Collections, MAD Museum am Dom in Würzburg, Alte Pinakothek
- Locations: Cologne, Munich
- Prices: €200,000–300,000, €220,000–280,000, €60,000–80,000, €180,000–220,000, €70,000–90,000, €80,000–100,000, €80,000–120,000, €120,000–130,000, €100,000–120,000, €70,000–80,000, €40,000–60,000
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