Giacometti chandelier bought in Marylebone antiques shop for £250 sells for £2.4m

A chandelier made in the 1940s for the offices of cultural magazine Horizon, and later purchased by artist John Craxton, sold for a hammer price of £2.4m at Christie’s.

It had been estimated at £1.5-2.5m and drew five phone bidders from the US and Europe at Christie’s …

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