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Article: Rubens painting sold for $76 million
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2002
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Rubens painting sold for $76 million
Associated Press
Thursday, July 11, 2002
London -- A recently discovered painting by the Flemish master
Peter Paul Rubens sold Wednesday for more than $76 million -- the
third-highest price ever paid for a painting, Sotheby's auction house
said.
"The Massacre of the Innocents," painted between 1609 and 1611,
was positively identified only a few weeks ago when the owner took it
to Sotheby's for examination.
It was bought by an unidentified private collector at Sotheby's in
London for $76.2 million, smashing the expected price of $9 million,
said Alexander Bell, the head of Sotheby's Old Master paintings
department.
He said it was the most expensive ...