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Constable's The Lock sells for £22m guardian.co.uk

'The Lock', John Constable's painting of a boat being worked through a lock on the Stour navigation in Suffolk, has sold for £22,441,250, a world record price at auction for the artist. The Lock, finished in 1824, is the fifth in a celebrated series of six large-scale paintings of the Stour Valley that Constable exhibited between 1819 and 1825.... click for full story