WriteAntiques » Canaletto http://writeantiques.com Helping You Find Right Antiques Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:48:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Battle of the Canalettos and the winner costs £18.6m http://writeantiques.com/battle-of-the-canalettos-and-the-winner-costs-186m/ http://writeantiques.com/battle-of-the-canalettos-and-the-winner-costs-186m/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:15:00 +0000 Christopher Proudlove http://www.writeantiques.com/battle-of-the-canalettos-and-the-winner-costs-186m/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
Record-breaking Canaletto
Record-breaking Canaletto

The champagne corks popped at Christie’s when their Canaletto sold for a record-breaking £11.4 million but the celebrations moved to Bond Street when Sotheby’s Canaletto smashed that price and was knocked down for a cool £18.6 million. Nice work if you can get it, but as supply of such top end paintings dries up, the problem now is finding another blockbuster. Read the BBC online report of the sales here.

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