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    1. Constable’s The Lock At Christie’s Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza is selling John Constable’s The Lock, one of the prized exhibits in her collection, because of liquidity problems due to Spain’s economic crisis. Estimated to go for US$31,416,902–US$39,271,127, the piece is expected to become one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s London on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Browse the entire Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale.   Constable’s The Lock At Christie’s Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza is selling John Constable’s The Lock, one of the prized exhibits in her collection, because of liquidity problems due to Spain’s economic crisis. Estimated to go for US$31,416,902–US$39,271,127, the piece is expected to become one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s London on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Browse the entire Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale.  

      July 02, 2012

      Constable’s The Lock At Christie’s

      Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza is selling John Constable’s The Lock, one of the prized exhibits in her collection, because of liquidity problems due to Spain’s economic crisis.

      Estimated to go for US$31,416,902–US$39,271,127, the piece is expected to become one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold when it goes under the hammer at Christie’s London on Tuesday, July 3, 2012.

      Browse the entire Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale.  

      Tags: christie's, auctions, john constable, british paintings, old masters,

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