A painting of Queen Elizabeth II, painted by Andy Warhol in 1985 will be auctioned this Thursday (2) in London. The work is part of the “Reigning Queens” collection, a series of 16 serigraphy portraits, and was, until then, the private collection of the Royal Family.
Exhibited at the Phillips auction house in London, the print is expected to sell for around £100,000 to £150,000 (equivalent to around R$903,000). The auction is part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee schedule, which celebrates her 70th year of reign.
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The United Kingdom began, this Thursday (2), the celebrations dedicated to the “Platinum Jubilee”, which marks the 70 years of the reign of the monarch Elizabeth II, considered the longest in history.
For the celebration, Buckingham Palace decreed a four-day holiday that runs until this Sunday (5), with concerts, events and street parties.
The party has been in the works for months, and events have been taking place since the beginning of the year. This is because two dates are commemorated in relation to Elizabeth’s arrival to the crown. The first is the 6th of February – the date on which King George VI died and Elizabeth became the monarch of the United Kingdom – and the second is the 2nd of June, on which the coronation ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey. in London in 1952.
Source: CNN Brasil
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