$3.8 million paid for ‘View of Geelong’
Published July 7th, 2006
THE Australian Geelong Gallery has paid $3.8 million to British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for a painting by colonial artist Eugene von Guerard.
The painting, View of Geelong, will arrive in Australia within eight weeks.
The price asked by auction house Christie’s on behalf of Lord Lloyd Webber, who bought the painting 10 years ago, is the second highest ever for an Australian work of art, after the $5.3 million paid by the National Gallery of Australia for a portrait of Captain James Cook by John Webber.
Related Articles Stradivarius violin The Hammer makes $3.54 million at Christies New YorkRaphael portrait sets £18.5m auction recordNoble Investments Acquires Apex PhilatelicsChristie’s Announces Sales of $3.5 BillionSir Joshua Reynolds painting for National Gallery
