Epstein File EFTA00772598: Painting and Sotheby's (DS9)

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Epstein File EFTA00772598: Painting and Sotheby's (DS9)

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This document is an email thread dated July 6, 2009, involving Al Seckel and Sotheby's experts regarding the sale of an autographed oil-on-canvas portrait of Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller from 1689. The correspondence discusses private treaty sales at Sotheby's, estimates the painting's value between $80,000 and $120,000, and references an April deadline for submissions to a July sale. The thread addresses the importance of the painting's subject in determining its market value.

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Al Seckel

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an autographed portrait of Sir Isaac Newton (oil on canvas) by Sir Godfrey Kneller 1689 > To: EFTA00772598 > My colleagues and I have considered the **painting**

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V > We do Private Treaty sales at Sotheby's but, the > importance of the sitter in > this **painting** means that in order to reach the highest > price possible

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V > The deadline for receiving paintings for the July sale is > at the end of > April, but the sooner we have the **painting** and permission > to sell it,