A painting by the Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky has sold for £2,295,000, becoming the highest value painting sold in an online-only sale.
The Bay Of Naples more than doubled its lower pre-sale estimate of £800,000 and broke the online-only painting record set by Giorgio Morandi’s Natura Morta (Still Life) last week.
At two metres wide, the 1878 work is one of the largest paintings by the Russian Romantic painter, who lived between 1817 and 1900, to appear on the open market.
Aivazovsky’s painting sold during auction house Sotheby’s first flagship sale of Russian Pictures to be held online. The session, which closed on Tuesday, brought in a total of £5.6 million and saw more than 57% of lots achieve above their high estimates, with 32% more
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