£27m record for Mr Turner at Sotheby’s
The outstanding lot of the latest Old Master auction series in London, ‘Rome, from Mount Aventine’ by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), was knocked down at £27m at Sotheby’s evening sale, setting a record price for the artist.
The sum was the second highest ever seen for a work in this category, only behind Peter Paul Rubens'…