Sotheby's employee Jack Barton, left, adjusts one of his white gloves before posing for photographs with his colleague Laura Thatcher with the painting "Interior with Ida in a White Chair" by the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi at the Sotheby's auction house in London, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The piece, which is estimated to fetch 500,000 to 700,000 pounds ($791,252 to $1,107,753 and 582,638 to 815,694 euro) is one of three headline paintings in the Scandinavian part of Sotheby's forthcoming sale of European paintings on November 22.
Matt Dunham Associated Press