Picture of Lawrence Alma-Tadema was sold for $ 36 million

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At Sotheby's auction in New York was a record price for the work of British artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912), reported ArtDaily. Picture "Finding of Moses" (The Finding of Moses) was sold for 35.9 million dollars. The upper limit of the preliminary assessment was 5 million and, thus, was closed for more than seven times.
For leaf fought three customers (two - on the phone), bidding lasted eight minutes. The previous record for a work of Alma-Tadema was installed the same pattern in 1995 when it sold for 2.8 million dollars.

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"Finding of Moses" is one of the artist's masterpieces. In 1902 Alma-Tadema went into Egypt, to attend the opening of one of the Aswan dam, where he invited a construction manager John Erd (John Aird). At the same time Erd commissioned artist painting, he being inspired by Egypt, the proposed three story, of which Erd unhesitatingly chose the biblical story of the discovery of baby Moses, Pharaoh's daughter.
Total auction at Sotheby's objects of European art of the XIX century, on 4 November, brought 61.5 million dollars. Among the lots sold - two paintings from the collection of Hollywood actress Demi Moore, and they went under the hammer for a total of 1.3 million dollars.

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The main event in 1905 showing a picture of Alma-Tadema Finding of Moses (1904, oil on canvas, 137.5 x 213.4 cm, Private collection) at the exhibition at the Royal Academy.

June 30, 1905, King Edward VII, has awarded Lawrence Alma-Tadema Order of Merit. " The Order consisted of a red cross worn around the neck with a blue and purple ribbon, and was given only two other artists: Holman Hunt (same day), and earlier by George Frederick Watts.