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Royal Opera House to sell David Hockney portrait in fight to survive pandemic

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The Royal Opera House is to sell a David Hockney portrait of its former chief Sir David Webster in a desperate bid to raise funds amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The painting will be auctioned at Christie’s this month and is expected to fetch between £11 million and £18 million, the Observer newspaper reports.

It depicts Sir David, who ran the opera house from 1945 to 1970, and was commissioned for the building in London’s Covent Garden in the 1970s. “This was a really tough call,” Alex Beard, the ROH’s chief executive, told the Observer. “But we have to face the situation we are in and if we can remain viable and get through this, then we can get back to employing people in the future. “We are the biggest arts employer in the country and we

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