"Old Masters and works of European art" at Sotheby's

[Marina56]

Cloth "Temple of Jupiter," the British artist William Turner was sold for 12.9 million dollars to finish on Thursday evening in New York trading, the old masters and works of European art, "spokeswoman said the press office of Sotheby's Helen Kolier.

This picture is from a private collection, most recently exhibited at Turner's big retrospective exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the present time, with some modifications, the exposition presented in the Moscow State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin.

Among the other top lots of the auction - painting Dutchman Hendrick ter Bruggen, Piper's profile, "which has sold over ten million 160 thousand dollars (estimate four to six million dollars), as well as a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger" Carnival of St George to dance around maypole, acquired over two million four hundred thousand dollars (estimate half to two million dollars).

In addition, over two million dollars had been paid for works of Francisco Goya ( "Portrait of Prince Alois, two million 210 thousand dollars) and Canaletto (" Capriccio prison, two million 880 thousand dollars).

The works, which stepped on the bid-million mark owned by Titian (Portrait of the Admiral, one million 760 thousand dollars), by Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( "Portrait of Jacques Dumont, one million 250 thousand dollars), Francois Boucher (" The Muse Erato " one million 314 thousand U.S. dollars), Lorenzo Monaco (Magician Hermogenes throwing a magical book in the water, one million four hundred thousand dollars) and Jan Haviksa Wall ( "Visiting the doctor, one million 82 thousand U.S. dollars).

According to Helen Kolier, total trading volume was 61 миллион 650 thousand dollars.