Canvas "gateway" comes from the collection of the Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. This is the only work in a series of six large-format paintings by Constable, still being in private hands

John Constable Gateway.
1824 Oil on canvas. 142,2 x 120,7
Christie's. 3.07.2012
Estimate: £ 20-25 million
Source: artdaily.com

at auction Christie's «Old Master and British paintings," which will be held July 3 in London, will be a picture of John Constable's "gateway" with an estimate of 20-25 million pounds. This is the only work in a series of six large-format paintings by Constable, still being in private hands. The rest of this series of paintings adorn the museum collections, including the National Gallery in London ("Hay Cart"). The painting "gateway" only once changed the owner from the time of original purchase from the artist.

Painting "Gateway" was completed in fruitful Constable in 1824 (the same year his "Hay Cart" exhibited at the Paris Salon and won a gold medal from the French King Charles X). "Gateway" is a famous series of six landscapes of Constable Stour River in Suffolk. In a year of writing, painting was exhibited in the British Royal Academy of Arts, where he became a collector James Morrison (1789-1857). Then the picture was hereditary until 1990, when it was put up for auction. "Gateway" bought at auction, Baron and Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza in 10.8 million pounds. From this moment Constable painting as much as 16 years held the title of most expensive British painting ever sold at public auction. In the family of Thyssen-Bornemisza painting is still there. At Christie's sale of its exposed Baroness Carmen.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artdaily.com , artinvestment.ru