Sandro Botticelli's late devotional panel The Man of Sorrows closed at Sotheby's New York on January 27, 2022, in the Master Paintings and Sculpture Part I sale. Sotheby's lot page documents the auction close on that date, while the work's reference page records the sale at $45.4 million with fees. The painting had been reattributed to Botticelli in the twenty-first century after a long private history, including a 1963 Sotheby's sale as a workshop picture. Its appearance mattered because fully accepted Botticelli paintings, especially late religious works shaped by the artist's post-Savonarola spirituality, very rarely reach the market.
The sale reinforced the exceptional market status of rare Old Master works with revised attributions.