Piece acquired by English painter in antiques shop in 1960s has been confirmed as lost work by Italian sculptor
The Giacometti chandelier pictured in the Hampstead home of John Craxton in 2007.Sometimes a hunch pays off, and when the English painter John Craxton recognised a work of genius for sale in aCraxton parted with £250 for an unusual chandelier he suspected was by the great sculptori. Now that chandelier, made in the late 1940s, may sell at Christie’s in a few weeks’ time for as much as £7m.
When Craxton first spotted the unique light fitting in a shop on Marylebone Road in the 1960s, he believed it had been commissioned by his late friend, the art collector Peter Watson. Confident about his purchase, Craxton –
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