Lot 11Offered today on Whatifs
The Sleeping Geographer
The painting Johannes Vermeer never painted, c. 1670
Johannes Vermeer (imagined)The Sleeping Geographer, c. 1670. Oil on canvas, 48 × 42 cm. Private collection.
Known only from a single line in the inventory of Vermeer's widow ("a woman sleeping on a map"), the canvas was thought lost in the Amsterdam fire of 1701. In 2024 a Leiden conservator found it beneath a mediocre 19th-century landscape bought for 40 guilders at an estate sale. Analysis of the ultramarine and a canvas weave identical to The Astronomer settled the attribution. Sold in 2025 to an anonymous buyer.
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Lot 48Offered today on Whatifs
The Betrayed Dice Player
The painting Caravaggio never painted, c. 1597
Caravaggio (imagined)The Betrayed Dice Player, c. 1597. Oil on canvas, 112 × 146 cm. Private collection.
Cardinal Del Monte is said to have commissioned a companion piece to The Cardsharps. Mentioned by a single biographer, it vanished when a Roman villa was looted in 1798. It resurfaced in 2023 in the sacristy of a Maltese church, under a blackened varnish that made it pass for a copy. Cleaning revealed the painter's signature incised outlines, scratched with the butt of the brush.
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Lot 85Offered today on Whatifs
Lady with a Falcon
The painting Leonardo da Vinci never painted, c. 1491
Leonardo da Vinci (imagined)Lady with a Falcon, c. 1491. Oil on walnut panel, 54 × 40 cm. Private collection.
Mentioned in a letter by Ludovico Sforza, the Lady with a Falcon was meant as a pair to the Lady with an Ermine. It was believed unfinished or never begun. In 2024 infrared reflectography of an anonymous panel in a Swiss collection revealed a left-handed underdrawing and a fingerprint in the paint layer. It became the second most expensive painting ever sold.
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Lot 122Offered today on Whatifs
Water Lilies, Night Effect
The painting Claude Monet never painted, 1917
Claude Monet (imagined)Water Lilies, Night Effect, 1917. Oil on canvas, 100 × 200 cm. Private collection.
Monet always claimed he never painted at night. Yet a letter to Clemenceau mentions "a folly made by lantern light". Given to a Giverny neighbour, the canvas spent a century rolled up behind tools in a barn. Found during a probate sale in 2023, it is the painter's only known nocturne.
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Lot 159Offered today on Whatifs
Self-Portrait, Laughing Out Loud
The painting Rembrandt never painted, 1669
Rembrandt (imagined)Self-Portrait, Laughing Out Loud, 1669. Oil on canvas, 74 × 60 cm. Private collection.
Painted months before his death, bankrupt, Rembrandt shows himself roaring with laughter. His pupil Aert de Gelder called it "a mocking testament". Deemed indecent, the canvas was cut in two in the 18th century. The halves, one in Vienna, the other in a Maine attic, were reunited in 2024 thanks to matching canvas threads.
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Lot 196Offered today on Whatifs
The Refused Kiss
The painting Gustav Klimt never painted, 1909
Gustav Klimt (imagined)The Refused Kiss, 1909. Oil and gold leaf on canvas, 150 × 150 cm. Private collection.
Sketched the same year as The Kiss, this painting shows the woman turning her face away. Klimt reportedly found it too cruel and gave it to Emilie Flöge. Seized in 1938, it reappeared in 2024 at a Buenos Aires dealer's, was restituted to the heirs, who put it up for sale.
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Lot 233Offered today on Whatifs
The Old Port of Marseille
The painting Vincent van Gogh never painted, 1888
Vincent van Gogh (imagined)The Old Port of Marseille, 1888. Oil on canvas, 65 × 81 cm. Private collection.
Van Gogh dreamed of painting Marseille, "Monticelli's city". He was believed never to have gone. A travel note found in 2023 proves a two-day escape from Arles; the painting, traded for a night at a hotel, spent the century above a bar counter in the Panier district.
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Lot 270Offered today on Whatifs
The Painter from Behind, Without a Model
The painting Johannes Vermeer never painted, c. 1666
Johannes Vermeer (imagined)The Painter from Behind, Without a Model, c. 1666. Oil on canvas, 52 × 45 cm. Private collection.
No one knows Vermeer's face. This small canvas shows a painter from behind facing a blank canvas and, in a mirror, a blurred reflection: perhaps his only self-portrait. Discovered in 2025 behind a framed sea chart in a harbour master's office in Zeeland.
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Lot 27Offered today on Whatifs
Judith, the Morning After
The painting Artemisia Gentileschi never painted, c. 1625
Artemisia Gentileschi (imagined)Judith, the Morning After, c. 1625. Oil on canvas, 120 × 95 cm. Private collection.
After her Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemisia is said to have painted the heroine the next morning, alone, washing her hands in a basin at dawn. Attributed for three centuries to "a follower of Caravaggio", it was reattributed in 2024 thanks to a signature hidden in the carpet pattern, revealed under raking light.
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Lot 64Offered today on Whatifs
The Dancer Who Leaves
The painting Edgar Degas never painted, 1882
Edgar Degas (imagined)The Dancer Who Leaves, 1882. Pastel and oil on canvas, 80 × 100 cm. Private collection.
Degas painted hundreds of dancers, never one leaving the Opera. This one, coat over her tutu, walks out of the stage door in the rain. Given to the dancer herself, it stayed in her family until it was found in 2024 in a house in Normandy.
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Lot 101Offered today on Whatifs
Venus in Winter
The painting Sandro Botticelli never painted, c. 1487
Sandro Botticelli (imagined)Venus in Winter, c. 1487. Tempera on canvas, 170 × 270 cm. Private collection.
A companion to The Birth of Venus, it shows the goddess in the snow, wrapped in a cloak by the Horae. It reportedly escaped Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities thanks to a monk who hid it in a Fiesole convent, where it was found walled up in 2024.
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Lot 138Offered today on Whatifs
The Garden, the Morning After
The painting Hieronymus Bosch never painted, c. 1505
Hieronymus Bosch (imagined)The Garden, the Morning After, c. 1505. Oil on oak panel, 90 × 70 cm. Private collection.
The Garden of Earthly Delights shows the world's night. This panel, perhaps its reverse, shows the same garden the next morning: deserted, giant half-eaten fruit, a single creature sweeping. Separated from the triptych in the 16th century, it was found in 2024 serving as a cupboard door in a Flemish presbytery; dendrochronology dates the oak to 1498.
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Lot 175Offered today on Whatifs
Storm over the Château d'If
The painting J. M. W. Turner never painted, 1838
J. M. W. Turner (imagined)Storm over the Château d'If, 1838. Oil on canvas, 91 × 122 cm. Private collection.
Turner read The Count of Monte Cristo as it came out. An 1838 sketchbook shows the Château d'If under a storm. The matching canvas, sold to a Marseille shipowner, was found in 2025 in an office at La Joliette, mistaken for an anonymous seascape.
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Lot 212Offered today on Whatifs
A Sunday Evening on La Grande Jatte
The painting Georges Seurat never painted, 1886
Georges Seurat (imagined)A Sunday Evening on La Grande Jatte, 1886. Oil on canvas, 110 × 160 cm. Private collection.
Seurat wanted to paint the same island as his famous Sunday afternoon, but at nightfall, as the strollers head home. Dead at 31, he left the canvas to his mother; it was found in 2024 rolled up in the false bottom of a travel trunk.
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The Wave, the Morning After
The painting Katsushika Hokusai never painted, c. 1832
Katsushika Hokusai (imagined)The Wave, the Morning After, c. 1832. Woodblock print, ink and colour on paper, 26 × 38 cm. Private collection.
Scholars long suspected Hokusai had cut a sequel to his Great Wave: a letter from his publisher mentions "the sea in the morning, when it apologises". In 2024 a single impression turned up pasted to the back of a folding screen sold from a house in Nagano. Same Mount Fuji, same Prussian blue, but a glassy sea where the three boats row home with full nets. Sold for $19 million in 2025, a record for a print.
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Lot 286Offered today on Whatifs
Las Meninas, Seen from the Mirror
The painting Diego Velázquez never painted, c. 1657
Diego Velázquez (imagined)Las Meninas, Seen from the Mirror, c. 1657. Oil on canvas, 142 × 118 cm. Private collection.
A 1686 inventory of the Alcazar lists "a small picture of the family, taken from the mirror", never identified. In 2023 a Seville collector had a blackened court scene from a flea market cleaned: out came Velázquez's studio seen from where the king stood, the princess from behind, the painter facing us with his brush raised. X-rays show a first version of the artist's face that he painted out himself. Sold for €132 million in 2025.
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The Hunters in August
The painting Pieter Bruegel the Elder never painted, 1565
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (imagined)The Hunters in August, 1565. Oil on oak panel, 116 × 160 cm. Private collection.
In 1565 Bruegel painted a series of the Months for an Antwerp merchant; five panels survive, including the famous Hunters in the Snow. The August panel, believed burnt, was identified in 2024 in a private chapel in Bohemia, under an 18th-century religious overpaint. Same hunters, same village, but at harvest time: the frozen ponds have become swimming holes. Tree-ring dating puts the oak at 1560. Sold for €96 million in 2025.
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Lot 80Offered today on Whatifs
The One Who Heard
The painting Edvard Munch never painted, 1895
Edvard Munch (imagined)The One Who Heard, 1895. Tempera and pastel on cardboard, 91 × 73 cm. Private collection.
In his 1895 diary Munch wrote that he wanted to paint "the one who heard the scream, across the fjord". The idea was thought to have stayed a sentence. In 2024 a rolled board was found in the attic of a guesthouse in Åsgårdstrand, where the painter spent his summers: a man on the shore, one hand over his ear, turning towards a tiny figure on a distant bridge under the same blood-red sky. Sold for $88 million in 2025.
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The Moulin Rouge at Six in the Morning
The painting Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec never painted, 1893
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (imagined)The Moulin Rouge at Six in the Morning, 1893. Oil on cardboard, 79 × 60 cm. Private collection.
Lautrec's friends said he often stayed at the Moulin Rouge after closing to sketch "the real dancers": the cleaning women. The picture that came of it was thought to be a legend. It resurfaced in 2023 in the storeroom of an old Toulouse cabaret, slipped behind a mirror. Chairs upturned on the tables, grey dawn light, a cleaner kicking up a cancan step with her broom. Sold for €41 million in 2025.
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Lot 154Offered today on Whatifs
The Mother Reading the Letter
The painting Mary Cassatt never painted, c. 1891
Mary Cassatt (imagined)The Mother Reading the Letter, c. 1891. Oil on canvas, 81 × 65 cm. Private collection.
In a letter to her sister Mary Cassatt describes a picture she "dares not show anyone": a mother secretly reading, while the child sleeps on her lap, a letter from a man who is not her husband. The canvas reappeared in 2024 in Philadelphia, rolled up in a Cassatt family trunk. The green garden light, the hand tight on the paper, the child who knows nothing. Sold for $34 million in 2025.
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Lot 191Offered today on Whatifs
The Wanderer, Seen from the Front
The painting Caspar David Friedrich never painted, c. 1818
Caspar David Friedrich (imagined)The Wanderer, Seen from the Front, c. 1818. Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm. Private collection.
Friedrich almost always painted his figures from behind. Yet an 1818 sketchbook holds a study of a wanderer "as the mountain sees him". In 2024 a canvas rolled up in the archives of a Greifswald church finally showed that face: the same man in the green coat, on the same rock, but seen from the sea of fog, eyes closed, almost smiling. Sold for €58 million in 2025, a record for German Romanticism.
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