A rare bronze inspired by a 2,000-year-old masterpiece vanished for 150 years, then became the most expensive Neoclassical sculpture ever sold

A bronze sculpture with roots stretching back to classical antiquity has rewritten the auction record books in London. The life-sized Hamilton Laocoön, a rare 19th-century bronze interpretation of one of the ancient world's most celebrated marble masterpieces, sold at Sotheby's for £13.6 million ($18.1 million), comfortably surpassing expectations before the sale.

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