NEW YORK, April 6 (UPI) -- A masterpiece hidden from the public eye for 20 years was sold at Christie's auction house in New York City Thursday for $35.8 million.
The 1841 painting by J.M.W. Turner garnered a record price for the auction sale of a British artist, the BBC said.
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The painting of Venice called "Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio" was donated to the St. Francis of Assisi Foundation by a private collector who bought the painting in 1992.
Christie's spokesman Nicholas Hall called the work "a genuine bona fide masterpiece."
The name of the private collector who won the auction with a telephone bid was not disclosed.
