"Proserpine" on Sotneby's

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While in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin is the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition , the auction house Sotneby's to Auction drawing " Proserpine " of the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which is considered a landmark work of this artistic movement . As reported by BBC News, the work done with pastels , will go under the hammer in London in November .
" Proserpina ", created in 1878, is estimated at $ 2.7 million . She put up for sale for the first time in forty years . Last picture was on the market in 1970 : the product has sold the English gallery of Stone Gallery in Newcastle -upon- Tyne . The name of the current owner of the painting is not reported. Figure comes from the collection of William Graham , the patron of Rossetti, a collection which included 35 of his works. There are five versions of the " Proserpine " of Rossetti's three oil-painted , one - watercolor.