Chalk up another top performance for Andrew Lloyd-Webber — although this one came in the art world rather than on Broadway.
The composer of such long-running shows as "Cats" paid $9 million for a painting by John William Waterhouse, the highest sum for a work from the Victorian period, Christie's auction house said Thursday.
"Saint Cecilia" had been expected to sell for $3.75 million to $5.25 million.
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But Lloyd-Webber, who had coveted the work for some time, drove up the bidding. The price far outstripped the previous record, held by Sir John Everett Millais' "Sleeping," which sold for $3 million last June.