Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings Realises up to $37 milions

LONDON.- The undoubted highlight of tonight’s Evening Sale of Old Master & British Paintings at Sotheby’s in London was George Stubbs’s Brood Mares and Foals, one of the British master’s most ambitious and successful works and arguably his finest painting ever to come to the market. The painting, which made its first ever appearance on the open market tonight, sold for £10,121,250 / $15,906,556 / €12,096,885, a price which represents a new auction record for a work by the British master, [...]