MINNEAPOLIS —"Washington Crossing the Delaware" has crossed the Mississippi River — bound from Winona's Minnesota Marine Art Museum to Christie's auction house in New York.
The famous painting, which had been on long-term loan to the museum, will be auctioned off May 12 at an estimated price of $15 million to $20 million. Its sale could break a record as the most expensive piece from its time period.
"This is the most significant pre-20th century American painting to come on the auction market," said Paige Kestenman, a specialist in American painting at Christie's. "It achieved a record for an American painting when it was sold in 1973 at Christie's."
