UK Auction News
A view of Venice by Joseph Mallord William Turner is in the running to become the most expensive British painting ever sold at auction when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s in New York next week.
The auction house this week lifted its estimate on the painting to more than $20m (€16.6m, £11.5m) after a higher than expected level of interest was shown in the work, titled “Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio”. The world record for a British painting is $21.3m for John Constable’s “The Lock”, set in 1990. However, that price includes the buyers’ premium. Estimates do not include the buyers’ premium.

Posted: 04|1|06 at 9:17 am. Filed under: Fine Arts Antiques.