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A watercolor painting by Joseph Mallord William turner Turner has set a new record for a British work on paper at a recent Christie's auction in London.
The 1842 watercolor "The Blue Rigi: Lake of Lucerne, Sunrise" went for nearly three times its estimate, selling for 5.8 million pounds or about $11 million USD. Making it a record for a British work on paper.
Not so long ago Joseph Mallord William Turner also set the record for the most expensive British painting to be sold at auction.

Noel Annesley, honorary chairman of Christie's, said the work marked the culmination of Turner's achievement in the medium that he made his own. In a technique of almost unimaginable subtlety Turner expresses his lifelong preoccupation with the effects of light, shade and atmosphere.

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