The “Bear Head” sketch Leonardo da Vinci was sold at auction for $ 12.2 million

Its size is only 7 by 7 centimeters.

Leonardo da Vinci performed the “bear’s head” with a silver pencil on pink-beige paper in the early 1480s, which allowed the expert to initially estimate the cost of 8 to 12 million dollars. About the total amount of sale to an unknown buyer is reported by the auction house Christie's.

The drawing is an elegant evidence of the unsurpassed skill of Leonardo da Vinci as an artist.

This sketch is one of the eight works of Da Vinci, which are in private ownership. As noted in the press release, earlier the drawing was in the private collection of the British portraitist and collector of the old workshops of Sir Thomas Lawrence. In 1860, Christie's sold a drawing to a private person for only $ 3.4, which is equivalent to $ 428 today.

I am glad that this masterpiece, one of the most important works of the Renaissance, still in private hands, again entrusted Christie's after its first sale in 1860.

Ben Hall

The most expensive picture of da Vinci is the Savior of the World. It was sold for 450.3 million dollars at the auction in 2017. This amount makes the picture the most expensive work of art in the world.

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