Rare Girolamo Comi painting

Kaminski, from Massachusetts, sells on 11 October 2015 a "Girolamo Comi" Dance of Salomé, estimated at $3,000 to 5,000.

I have nothing to add, really: the painting is signed and dated and fits perfectly in style and execution with the few known Comi works (one pictured from the Fondazione Zeri website). The three other works I could find all have a similar internal structure, a vertical composition with pillars to the left and right and so on. But I wanted to highlight it anyway, as Comi is a very obscure painter, with only a handful of works known, and with no (easily available) auction records, but with lots of charm and individuality. His work reminds me in some ways of some Flemish paintings, e.g. from the Francken studios or from Caullery.

As he is rather unknown and doesn't really fit into the traditional flow of Renaissance art and Italian traditions, the painting has a fairly low estimate; a 16th century signed and dated work of this quality and condition, with so much charm, should fetch $10,000 any day., certainly if you consider that the chance of finding another Comi is very, very small.

UPDATE: sold for $6,000, above the highest estimate.

UPDATE 2: Now (December 2017) for sale at Norton Simon, an Old Master dealer from New York, who probably were the buyers at the Kaminski auction.