A Christie's employee poses with an auction catalogue in front of Fra Bartolommeo's "The Madonna and Child in a landscape with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Saint John the Baptist" at Christie's auction house in London July 3, 2009. The artwork is expected to fetch up to �3million ($5 million) when it is sold at an auction on July 7, 2009. Reuters Pictures 5 months ago

A Christie's employee poses with an auction catalogue in front of Fra Bartolommeo's "The Madonna and Child in a landscape with Saint Elizabeth and the infant Saint John the Baptist" at Christie's auction house in London July 3, 2009. The artwork is expected to fetch up to �3million ($5 million) when it is sold at an auction on July 7, 2009.

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