It hid for 150 years, then sold in just 15 minutes: a monumental bronze inspired by the ancient Laocoön shattered records at Sotheby’s, fetching over $18 million and becoming the priciest Neoclassical sculpture ever to cross the auction block
byIt took 150 years for The Hamilton Laocoön, a monumental bronze by Auguste-Jean Marie Carbonneaux, to surface, and only 15 minutes for it to…
