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Modern art threatens relevancy of old masters

Tue, Aug 30, 2016 - 5:50 AM

Peter Paul Rubens' Lot and His Daughters fetched US$58 million at Christie's London's old masters sale, the second-most expensive work ever sold at auction by the artist.

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AT Christie's over the last few weeks, two specialists in old master paintings and drawings quietly left the auction house.

Their departures followed a year of spotty sales, in which the values of works by old masters - a pantheon of European painters working before around...

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