This week, however, the painting’s price jumped exponentially1,000 times its previous valueat a Sotheby’s auction in New York.
It sold Wednesday for $5.2 million.
The discrepancy in the value of “Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows” is due to a difference of opinion by art experts at the rival auction houses.
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In 2012, the Constable painting “The Lock” became one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold, fetching £22.4m ($34.8 million) at an auction at Christie’s in London.
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