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Fra Angelico’s Rare Painting of the Crucifixion Fetches Record Price at Christie’s Auction House

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Fra Angelico’s ‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Baptist and the Magdalen at the Foot of the Cross’

Christie’s is the same auction house that sold Leonardo’s work six years ago — it was the most expensive painting ever sold — $450 million, and the buyer was probably the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.