House Christie's estimated the "old masters" of 15 million pounds
 

Appointed on 7 July 2009 London auction house Christie's, which exhibited 66 works by artists XIV - XVIII centuries, that is "old masters", as well as the XIX century, will according to preliminary estimates about 15 million pounds, according to a press release home .
The most expensive lot of trades organizers called the canvas "Madonna with Child, Saint Elizabeth and the infant John the Baptist," painted by Florentine Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517): it is estimated at 2 - 3 million pounds. In the same amount of work is estimated Michele Marieschi (1710-1743) "The courtyard of the Palace of the Doges in Venice overlooking the stairway of the Giants and the Cathedral of St. Mark." For 1 - 1,5 million pounds exhibited painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness. Portrait of Mrs Oliver St. John, Anthony Van Dyck estimated at 800 thousand - 1.2 million pounds.
Also at these auctions work exhibited Frans Hals ( "head boy", 300 - 500 thousand pounds), Turner (watercolor, from Yarmouth: ship, departing from the shore in windy weather, 200 - 300 thousand pounds), Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Angelica and Medora, 600 - 800 thousand pounds), as well as pencil portraits Ingres (250 - 400 thousand pounds).
(Lenta.ru)

Interesting review on the site ARTinvestment.RU
 

"Old Masters and Art of the XIX century" - tonight at Christie's
  07/07/2009
Today in London, held the evening auction "Old Masters and Art of the XIX century", they will be exhibited 66 works (paintings, watercolors and drawings), which cover nearly 700-year history of European painting. The total estimate of the auction is 15 million pounds sterling.
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Results of the trades on July 7. Christie `s
 

Results of the trades on July 7. Christie `s.
Bidding went well ... given the world's financial problems.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/s...2-b0bb0b3a5c5a
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1.Lot 15, Sale 7743, London, King Street
Baccio della Porta, called Fra Bartolommeo ...
The Madonna and Child in a landscape with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saintprice realized
£ 2,169,250
($ 3,499,000)
2.Lot 5, Sale 7743, London, King Street
Frans Hals (Antwerp 1581/5-1666 Haarlem)
Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate £ 300,000 - £ 500,000
($ 460,000 - $ 750,000)
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Sold for £ 914,850
($ 1,475,653)

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vyadem, interest "care". Thank you.

Willem Claesz. Heda (Haarlem 1594-1680)
A blackberry pie, an upturned nautilus cup, a salt-cellar, a façon-de-Venise flute of wine, a silver ewer, an upturned roemer, hazelnuts, a silver knife and a knife-case, on a partly-draped table with pewter plates
oil on panel
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
   Price Realized (Set Currency)
  £ 1,385,250
($ 2,234,408)
Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate £ 300,000 - £ 500,000
($ 460,000 - $ 750,000)

Cyril Syzransky, so grind as pies :)... of the 66 lots remained unsold, only 3!
SALE TOTAL: 20,549,650 (GBP) (Prices include buyer's premium)

Yes, and lots of interest.

Pieter Brueghel II (Brussels 1564/5-1637/8 Antwerp)
The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
oil on panel
40 x 65 ¾ in. (102 x 167 cm.)
  Price Realized (Set Currency)
  £ 1,497,250
($ 2,415,064)
Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate £ 1,000,000 - £ 1,500,000
($ 1,600,000 - $ 2,300,000)

Cyril Syzransky, I work Pieter Brueghel II also very liked!

And what does the figure II? Tell me please:) Here and Cranach, too, with this figure.
Maybe less than 2000000 not sell! :)

Second. We are called "junior" or "infernal", since the beginning of his artistic career, Pieter Brueghel the younger subjects fond of Doomsday, and other various horrors of hell, depicted demons and witches, so he was nicknamed Hell's. But then he began to do under the pope. A father-"the Elder" also called "peasant". "Second" (II)-the eldest of three children.

And who among them velvet? :)

The second son, Ian. But he also had a son, Ian, it is called "junior". :)
In short, like our Benoit, disassemble, or swearing. : eek: