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articles/Sleeper Constable sketch back on the auction block with mm estimate — theartnewspaper.com

John Constable, study for Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows A sketch which recently sold for £3,500 and was later identified as a work by John Constable is coming up to auction again at Sotheby’s, New York on 29 January with an estimate of $2m-$3m. The painting has been authenticated as a study for the artist’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, 1831, which belongs to the Tate. When the oil sketch came up for sale at South Kensington in July 2013, Christie’s catalogued it as by a “follower of John Constable” and estimated it at £500-£800. The unnamed buyer later confirmed that the work had been heavily retouched in the late 19th or early 20th century, depriving it of its lively, sketchy quality, but it has now been cleaned.

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