London dealer bids record sum for Francken in Austria
SPEAKING to ATG at the end of last week, London Old Master dealer Johnny Van Haeften still had not actually seen the monumental painting by Frans Francken II (1581-1642) for which he paid 6.1m euros (£5.65m) at Dorotheum’s Old Master sale in Vienna on April 21.
He, like everyone else, had been unable to travel.
Although booked on a flight out from London to V…