microrobert
07-04-2012, 05:03 AM
Constable masterpiece fetches record £22.4m
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LONDON — "The Lock" by British Romantic painter John Constable on Tuesday sold for £22.4 million ($35.2 million) at a London sale, smashing the world record price at auction for the artist.
The 56 x 47 inch (142.2 x 120.7 cm) oil on canvas, which depicts rural life in Suffolk, east England, went under the hammer at Christie's Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale.
AFP: Constable masterpiece fetches record £22.4m (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJsvTuk3tUM2phk3H2CanidrTxZA?docId=CNG.f4459 e0f53e077e76c4c5d00465deede.721)
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LONDON — "The Lock" by British Romantic painter John Constable on Tuesday sold for £22.4 million ($35.2 million) at a London sale, smashing the world record price at auction for the artist.
The 56 x 47 inch (142.2 x 120.7 cm) oil on canvas, which depicts rural life in Suffolk, east England, went under the hammer at Christie's Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale.
AFP: Constable masterpiece fetches record £22.4m (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJsvTuk3tUM2phk3H2CanidrTxZA?docId=CNG.f4459 e0f53e077e76c4c5d00465deede.721)