AT AUCTION FOR THE FIRST TIME:
THE LAST RENDERING IN PRIVATE HANDS OF
CONSTABLE’S ICONIC VIEW
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL FROM THE BISHOP’S GROUNDS
London, 7 December 2021
London – Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds, 1823, by John Constable will be offered at auction for the first time in Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 7 December, as a highlight of Classic Week in London (estimate: £2,000,000-3,000,000). This quietly beautiful landscape is a full-scale compositional oil sketch for a finished painting at the Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California. Having remained in the artist’s family until the late-nineteenth century, where it was fondly referred to as The Vision, it is the only rendering of Constable’s celebrated view to remain in private hands. It is currently at Christie’s New York until 11 November, before being exhibited in Hong Kong from 25 to 29 November, ahead of the pre-sale London exhibition which will run from 3 to 7 December.
