Record amount for Turner work
A Venice canal scene by J.M.W. Turner sold for $35.8 million at Christie’s on Thursday, setting an auction record for a work by a British artist.
The painting, “Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio,” from 1841, was bought by a private collector bidding over the telephone.
It was sold by the St. Francis of Assisi Foundation, a nonprofit institution in New York that receives donations to support the missionary effort of the Capuchin order of friars. A private collector had bought the painting in 1992 and donated it to the foundation.
The previous record for any British painting sold at auction was $21 million for John Constable’s “The Lock” in 1990.
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