Pick of the week: A rediscovered carving emerges at Sotheby's sale
Despite appearing in a 1930s photograph held in the MAK Museum, Vienna, this wood carving of Adam and Eve seems to have hitherto eluded scholars of the German woodcarver Leonhard Kern (1588-1662).
It came for sale at Sotheby’s on July 5 by descent from Leopold von Lieben (1835-1915), a prominen…