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It's a lovely work which will still bring the checkbooks out for some of the largest museums and even big collectors. This work just came off a US tour (ended in January at the Nat'l Gallery in DC) serving as a Turner retrospective in 40 years; the tour contained over 140 works in oils and watercolor.

The seemingly conservative price is likely due to the less abtract nature of the work and accordingly be a bit more conventional.

Still the record for a Turner painting is $35.8 million set in New York in April, 2006. So hitting the $20M mark is possible - although not likely.

Per the NYT's the owner still has another Turner, owned for the last 35 years, which he'll never part with.


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