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Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece Expected to Rake in $1.3 Million at Auction

Artnet News·Vittoria Benzine·4 days ago
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Last November, a smattering of radiant Tiffany lamps from the collection of accomplished literary agent Albert Zuckerman anchored a Christie’s auction . This summer, the auction house will round out its sale of the late Zuckerman’s collection by offering 20 Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist oil paintings, watercolors, and pastels that he once owned over two sales in London. One work leads this trove by leaps and bounds in terms of estimates: Thy Music, faintly falling, dies away, Thy dear eyes dream that Love will live for aye (1893) by Pre-Raphaelite painter John Melhuish Strudwick is expected to rake in £700,000 to £1 million ($950,000–$1.3 million) amid its Old Masters Evening Sale on June 30. The work represents Strudwick’s second-highest auction record, according to the Artnet Price Database —ever since Zuckerman bought it from Christie’s London in November 2003 for £509,250 ($863,130).…

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