Burne-Jones watercolour sets £13.2m auction record
The most stunning price of London’s summer auction season came at Christie’s last week when the competition that emerged on ‘Love among the Ruins’ by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) was one of the strongest ever seen for a Victorian picture.
Estimated at £3m-£5m, it drew no fewer than six bidders, five of whom bid over the top estimate. Fou…