Munnings preparatory sketch makes £62,000
UK: SIR Alfred James Munnings proved as great a magnet as ever at Sotheby’s South’s Billingshurst rooms on July 18 when a watercolour sketch for one of his oil paintings fetched a hammer price of £62,000, more than double the low estimate.
Titled Shrimp leading ponies across a Norfolk Common, the 14 x 191/2in (36 x 50cm) preparatory study…