Cranach the Elder leads Sotheby’s Old Master sale at £8.2m
Sotheby’s evening sale of Old Master and British paintings was led by Lucas Cranach the Elder’s La Bocca della Verità (The Mouth of Truth) which made a major auction record when it was knocked down at £8.2m.
Consigned from a private European collection, it almost doubled the previous high for the German Ren…