Rome,
from Mount Aventine sells for £30.3 million at Sotheby’s London EVENING SALE OF
OLD MASTER & BRITISH PAINTINGS Soars above Estimate to £54 million (€68.6
million/ $84.4 million), Confirming Sotheby’s long-held Leadership in the
Category.
At
Sotheby’s London, one of the last great Turner masterpieces remaining in
private hands set a world auction record for the artist*, selling for a
staggering £30.3 million/ $47.4 million/ €38.6 million (est. £15-20m /
$24.1-32.1m / €19-25.3m). This result also represents the highest price at
auction for any pre-20th century British artist and the second highest price
for any work ever sold at auction in the Old Master and British Paintings
category. Four bidders competed for the work tonight, driving the work high
above its pre-sale estimate. The sale coincided with a wider moment of Turner
mania, with the groundbreaking exhibition of “Late Turner” at the Tate and Mike
Leigh’s sensational “Mr Turner”.
The
spectacular work by Turner was the highlight of a high performing Old Master
& British Paintings Evening sale which totalled £53,972,000
(€68,647,191/$84,423,002), well above the high estimate (est. £32.2 - 44.9
million).
Painted
in 1835 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1836, when Turner was 61 years
old, Rome, from Mount Aventine is one of the artist’s supreme achievements and
arguably the most important view of the Italian city ever painted. The
large-scale oil painting is further distinguished by its exceptional state of
preservation, as well as a prestigious and unbroken provenance. Until this
evening’s sale, the work had changed hands only once in 1878, when it was
acquired by the 5th Earl of Rosebery, later Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The painting had since remained undisturbed in the Rosebery collection.
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