Brueghel the Younger makes merry among just 20 lots

Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium plus 1% overhead premium) latest Old Master evening sale in London was the smallest in terms of the number of lots that anyone could remember at one of these flagship summer events.

The auction on July 6 offered only 20 lots of which 18 sold (90%) for a £7.1m total including prem…

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