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    BREUGHEL TOPS CHRISTIE’S OLD MASTERS EVENING SALE

    Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
    Pieter Brueghel the Younger – The Massacre of the Innocents

    The Massacre of the Innocents by Pieter Brueghel the Younger was the top lot at Christie’s Old Masters evening sale in London this evening. It made £2,422,500 over a top estimate of £1.5 million. The auction launched Christie’s winter edit of Classic Week in London and realised £10.3 million.  El Greco’s Portrait of a Gentleman, 1570, one of the earliest surviving  portraits by the artist and one of the last to remain in private hands, led three restituted works from the Priester Collection, and made £1,222,500. There were 46 lots offered and 33 were sold.