Painting sold for $1.2M
NZPA-AP New York A collection of Orientalist paintings by nineteenth century European artists was sold at auction, with one painting bringing more than SUSI.2 million ($2.66 million). Fifty-eight paintings, from the collection of the Coral Petroleum Corp, brought $U57,118,650 according to Carol Morgan, a spokeswoman for the auction house, Sothebys. “An Intercepted Correspondence, Cairo” by Frederick Lewis, brought the top price in the sale of $U51,265,000. The 1869 painting, in bright hues, is of a woman in a harem who has been caught by her master with an illicit bouquet of flower#
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Press, 27 May 1985, Page 12
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96Painting sold for $1.2M Press, 27 May 1985, Page 12
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