ROME , Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A previously unknown painting by Caravaggio, which may be worth more than $102 million, is set to go on display in Trapani, Sicily.
The early version of Caravaggio's "The Card Sharps" was bought by 97-year-old Denis Mahon for about $103,000 at a Sotheby's auction last December, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The painting was attributed to an anonymous "follower of Caravaggio" at the time of the sale.
However, Mahon, a scholarly art collector who has authenticated three other Caravaggios, has since declared the painting a genuine work by the Renaissance master.
Believed to have been painted in 1595, the piece was a predecessor of the "The Card Sharps," which hangs in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Mahon told the newspaper.
The newly discovered painting is to be lent to the Ashmolean museum in Oxford in March after the exhibition in Trapani.
