Francesco Guardi’s monumental painting, Venice, a View of the Rialto Bridge, Looking North, from the Fondamenta del Carbon made £26,697,250 ($44,362,820) at Sotheby’s Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on July 6. Sotheby’s quickly claimed that this was the most expensive painting to be sold by an international auction house so far this year. Measuring 115 by [...]