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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Mimi Ibrahim

George Stubbs dog painting expected to reach up to £2m at auction

An oil painting of a brown-and-white dog creeping low to the ground in a landscape of fields and trees
The Spanish Pointer by George Stubbs. Photograph: Sotheby's

George Stubbs’s celebrated painting of a Spanish pointer dog is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s for the first time since 1972.

The 18th-century painting is being offered for auction at £1,500,000-2,000,000. It was last auctioned for £30,000 in 1972, and fetched £11 when it was auctioned in 1802.

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