Sotheby’s follows up their eye-popping sale of Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Finding of Moses for nearly $36m last year with another Alma-Tadema work, The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, 41 BC ($3-5m)
Renowned for his expansive knowledge of ancient artifact, the chief sources for the objects that Alma-Tadema illustrates in The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, 41 B.C. appear to be either from the collections of European museums–where the artist spent countless hours–travels to ancient Greco-Roman sites, or from published surveys of Egyptian culture,Continue Reading