James Cosmo of Game of Thrones and Braveheart fame salutes Edwin Landseer's The Monarch of the Glen. First sold by Christie’s 100 years ago, the painting could find a permanent home in the National Galleries of Scotland, providing sufficient funds are raised.
Were the iconic piece to be secured, it would pass into public hands for the first time in its history.
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The Monarch of the Glen was originally commissioned in 1849 for the Refreshment Room in the House of Lords. It presents a majestic stag posed before a Scottish mountain landscape, monarch of all he surveys. Currently exhibited as part of Christie’s 250th anniversary celebrations, the work is to be on view at Christie’s Hong Kong (24-28 November).
Jussi Pylkkänen, Christie’s Global President, commented: ‘This superb painting was purchased from Christie’s in 1916, and it is fitting that exactly 100 years later, in our 250th year, it has the opportunity to find its permanent home in the National Galleries of Scotland.’
20 ноя 2016
