An early painting by one of Europe’s most famous painters was auctioned for a record high price years after it was recovered in a shopping bag at a bus stop. “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” an early work by the famed 16th-century Italian painter Titian, was sold for over £17.5 million ($22.3 million) on July 2, according to Christie’s. It was the highest-priced work to be sold that evening and set a record for any work by Titian, the auction house said. The painting’s longtime owners, the family of a British nobles, held onto the painting after it was previously sold by Christie’s in 1878. In 1995, however, the ... (full story)