It's the very first time she has sold a painting from her collection. 'I need liquidity', she said.John Constable's 'The Lock' The crisis is also proving difficult for some of the rich in Spain with the Baroness Thyssen putting a painting from her collection up for sale for the very first time, because of liquidity problems. John Constable’s ‘The Lock’ shows a man opening a canal lock gate in a typical English Constable scene. It will be auctioned at Christies in London on July 3 and could bring 30 million € for the Baroness. The painting belongs to a famous series of six Constable works which includes ‘The Haywain’, probably his most famous work. The painting is not in the Tyssen Museum permanent collection, but was on show in Madrid until last week. Wednesday and Thursday this week the painting can be seen at Christies in London, and on Friday it travels to New York where it will be exhibited for five days. ‘It upsets me to sell it, I’ve taken years to take the step, but the crisis affects us all and I need liquidity’, said Carmen Cervera. She said that she would have offered it to the Ministry for Culture, ‘at a cheap price and in instalments’ but Ángeles González Sinde rejected the idea.
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