ISTANBUL.- Antik A.S. is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an exceptional auction. The leading auction house of Turkey will offer exceptional paintings by the most important classic Turkish masters. The auction will take place on November 27, 2011 at the Swissotel the Bosphorus and will present selected 200 lots among the finest which ever to have appeared on the market for the first time. Special collection will be exhibited in Antik A.S. exhibition rooms until 27th of November. One of the highlights being offered in the sale is titled “SERENITY”, a large spectacular canvas by Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910), one of the most important and most popular Turkish artists whose painting; “The Turtle Trainer” had fetched 3.9 million USD in 2004, which was the world record price for any Turkish work of art sold at auction. In 2008 “A Lady of Constantinople” at Sotheby’s auction sold for 6.9 Millio