A second turn of The Lock – Constable heads to Sotheby’s with £8-12m estimate
Three years after Christie’s sold an earlier version for £20m, a second version of John Constable’s (1776-1837) The Lock is being offered at Sotheby’s Old Master & British Paintings Sale on December 9.
Christie's picture was painted in 1824 and was the fifth of a series of six large landscapes of the …