Sotheby’s Snags Turner Landscape, to Be Offered This Summer for Up to $31 Million If it makes its high estimate, it will be among Turner's top-selling canvases. Sotheby’s London will test the heights of the market for British art this July with what could be one of the top-selling paintings by Joseph Mallord William Turner , currently the best-selling British-born artist on the market. Measuring four feet wide, Ehrenbreitstein (1835) shows the ruins of the titular fortress, near the German city of Coblenz, and is estimated at £15–25 million ($18.7–31.2 million). If the canvas makes its high estimate, it will rank as the English painter’s fourth-priciest work at auction, according to the artnet Price Database . Turner’s two highest prices have come in just the last seven years; the artist’s current auction high is $47.6 million, achieved at Sotheby’s London in December 2014 with Rome (from Mount Aventine) , also of 1835; ...
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