An upcoming art auction could bring worldwide fame to a colourful piece of Toronto landscape, when artist Peter Doig's Country Rock (Wing Mirror) hits Sotheby's London auction house next month. The 1999 painting shows the DVP's rainbow-embellished tunnel, as viewed from the passenger set of a northbound car. Doig's paintings have pulled record prices in the past, and it's estimated the work could draw as much as $16,000,000—about 800 times more than the city's maintenance department paid to restore the rainbow in 2012. [Toronto Life]
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