UK export bar on £26.2m Guardi
January 8 2018
Picture: Christie's
The UK government has placed a temporary export bar on the Guardi painting of the Rialto Bridge sold at Christie's last July for £26.2m. I suspect it's unlikely that any UK institution will want to raise the funds to keep it here, but you never know.
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