Turner watercolour sets two auction records
Published June 7th, 2006
Auction Blogs
An 1842 watercolour by J.M.W. Turner set two saleroom records on Monday as it sold for 5.8 million pounds to an anonymous telephone bidder.
The price paid for the Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne more than doubled the world record for a British work of art on paper of 2.6 million pounds, set in 2000 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Pandora.
It also more than doubled the record for a Turner watercolour on paper of 2.04 million pounds, set in 2001 by Heidelberg with a Rainbow.
