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

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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)