Constable’s ‘The Lock’ May Sell for $39 Million at Christie’s

A John Constable painting owned by the widow of the Dutch-born industrialist and Old Master collector Baron Hans Thyssen-Bornemisza may sell for as much as 25 million pounds ($39.2 million) at an auction.

Constable’s 1824 landscape “The Lock,” showing a figure struggling to open a canal gate, was one of six large-scale canvases of the River Stour that the artist exhibited to acclaim at the London Royal Academy between 1819 and 1825.