Now the work is the most expensive stamp of all that has ever been sold in the UK.

According Artdaily.com, print by Edvard Munch (Edvard Munch)« Madonna brought to the Bonhams auction incredible 1.25 million pounds sterling. This is the largest sum ever paid for a work lottery charts in the UK. Moreover, the work took second place in the list of most expensive prints in the world. At first there is another print of Munch - Vampire II », sold in 2007, in Oslo for 1.26 million. Preliminary assessment of "Madonna" was 500-700 thousand pounds.

Estamp, never before had seen by the public, is one of the first copies of the work, painted by hand. Known solutions of seven paintings "Madonna", made in 1895-1902; before us print refers to the first of them. Hand-painted "Madonna" came to us a bit, most of these works are in public meetings, and on the open market they are very rare. Perfectly preserved "bonamsovsky" copy is in the collection of one family over a hundred years.

model for the "Madonna" served as mistress of the artist Yull Dagny (Dagny Juel), «femme fatale" who was later shot dead by one from their lovers in a hotel in Tbilisi.

Material prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Sources: artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru