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Offered during Classic Week in London, unseen Burne-Jones studies for @tate masterpiece The Golden Stairs reveal a previously unknown link to Leighton’s iconic Flaming June.
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898), Head Study of Dorothy Dene Looking Downwards, for ‘the Golden Stairs’. Oil on canvas, 17 x 12¾ in (43.2 x 32.4 cm). Estimate: £30,000-50,000. This lot is offered in Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art on 14 December 2016 at Christie’s in London, King Street
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Our Old Masters Evening Sale, part of Classic Week, features this sketch by Goya titled A Woman and two Boys by a fountain. Intimately associated with the most important Spanish Royal commission of its time, and hung over recent years on the walls of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, this delightful and beautifully-preserved sketch displays many of the qualities that make Goya stand out as one of the very greatest artists his, or indeed any, age.
Estimate GBP 4,000,000 - GBP 6,000,000.
This lot is offered in our Old Masters Evening Sale, part of Classic Week, on 8 December at Christie’s London, King Street.
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