Upgraded Constable sells for $4.5m in New York
This version of John Constable’s (1776-1837) celebrated painting ‘Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows’ sold for $4.5m (£3.1m) at Sotheby’s Old Master sale in New York yesterday. It was an oil sketch with quite a backstory.
In July 2013 it had appeared at Christie's South Kensington as part of a sale of works from the coll…