A work depicting Venice by 18th-century Italian painter Canaletto has set a new auction record for the artist, selling for £27.5m (€32.6m) - or £31.9m (€37.8m) with fees - at Christie’s in London.
Titled Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day (c.1732) and once owned by Britain’s first prime minister Robert Walpole, the work exceeded its estimate of $20m.
