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ArtPaintingSculpturePrintsPhotographyDrawing
Auctioneer Georgina Hilton sells Michelangelo's study of the Libyan Sibyl's foot (recto) and study of a leg with a bent knee (verso) for $27,200,000. Photo © Christie's (detail)
Drawing6 February 2026

Drawings by Rembrandt and Michelangelo Break Auction Records

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 Caprese - 1564 Rome), Study of a Right Foot, Preliminary Study for the Libyan Sibyl on the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, red chalk drawing, signed “Michelangelo Bona Roti”, 13.5 x 11.5 cm, Estimated price: US$1,500,000–2,000,000. Photo © CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2025
Drawing6 January 2026

Previously Unknown Michelangelo Study for the Sistine Chapel Resurfaces at Christie’s

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Young Lion at Rest, ca. 1638-42, black chalk, white chalk heightening and grey glaze on brown laid paper, 11.5 x 15 cm, The Leiden Collection, New York. Photo in the public domain (detail)
Drawing17 April 2025

Will a Rembrandt Drawing Break Auction Records?

Vlado Kristl, Man and his Poccordi shadow in the fight against the aggressor. © vladokristl.fr (detail)
Drawing14 May 2024

In Conversation with Friends of Vlado Kristl

Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755-1842), Self-portrait in traveling costume, pastel, 48 x 37.5 cm. Image © Sotheby’s (detail)
Drawing21 February 2024

A New Record for a Work on Paper by Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun

Goscinny (writer of the Asterix and Lucky Luke comics) (left) and Morris (artist of the Lucky Luke comics) (right). Photographer unknown / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (detail)
Drawing25 January 2024

The 10 French and Belgian Comic Strips to Collect

Honoré Daumier, Le Charivari, 1840. Public domain image (detail)
Drawing19 December 2023

Caricature in the 19th Century: The Art of French Criticism

Hergé during an interview in 1962 for Radio-Canada's Premier Plan program, broadcast June 27, 1962. Photo public domain (detail)
Drawing3 March 2023

A New Record for a Black and White Tintin Drawing

L S Lowry in his studio at home, 1961. A photograph of the artist L. S. Lowry (1887-1976), in a paint-spattered suit, in his studio at his home in Mottram-in-Longdendale, Cheshire. On his easel is his painting 'Level Crossing, Burton on Trent', recently completed. Roy Spencer. 27 February 1961. (Photo by Daily Herald Archive/National Science & Media Museum/SSPL via Getty Images)
Drawing12 October 2022

L.S. Lowry Sketches Rediscovered in an Art Teacher’s Folder in Lincolnshire

The designer Sempé on the set of the program "L'invité du dimanche". Photo by INA via Getty Images
Drawing5 September 2022

Farewell to Jean-Jacques Sempé: Whimsical Cartoonist

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), 'A nude young man (after Masaccio) surrounded by two figures', pen and two shades of brown ink, 13 x 7 7/8 in. Image © Christie's (detail)
Drawing12 April 2022

Michelangelo's Earliest Nude Drawing Could Set a Record

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), ‘The Virgin and the Christ Child with a Flower on a grassy Bench’, probably 1503, pen drawing on fine linen paper, monogrammed, 16.2 x 16.4 cm (detail). Photo © Agnews Gallery
Drawing29 November 2021

A Dürer Bought for $30 is Worth $50 Million

Gulliver in Lilliput, ill. Paul Birkbeck 1939-2019, written by Jonathan Swift, The emperor on the prone and bound Gulliver walking up a red carpet towards his head, 24 x 55 cm (detail). Photo © Ewbank’s Sponsored
Drawing17 November 2021

Original Illustrations for Leading TV Shows for Sale

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), 'Worn Out', 1882, pencil on paper, 50.4 x 31.6 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Drawing known to experts, whose composition is very similar but more elaborate than that of the unpublished sketch (detail). Photo public domain
Drawing27 September 2021

A New Van Gogh Drawing Discovered

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), 'La Danse', 1898, lithograph, private collection (detail). Photo public domain
Drawing2 August 2021

7 Facts to Know about Alphonse Mucha

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Head' of a Bear' was auctioned at Christie's on 8 July for a record sum (detail). Photo © Christie's
Drawing13 July 2021

A New Record for Leonardo da Vinci

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), 'Portrait of Hélène Mercier, née Princesse Galitzine, seated', 1938, charcoal and stump drawing, signed and dated 10/22/38 lower left. Carry on the back of the indications PH Vaux 2425 and 3116 - D19 65.5 x 50.5 cm (detail). Work of the artist © Succession H. Matisse
Drawing25 May 2021

A Rediscovered Matisse Drawing at Auction

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), 'Head of a Bear', silver pen / paper, 7 x 7 cm (detail). Photo © Christie's
Drawing13 May 2021

This Rare da Vinci Drawing Could Set a Record

Vincent van Gogh, La Mousmé (detail), July 31 - August 3, 1888, reed pen drawing, brown ink and pencil on paper, image © Christie's
Drawing11 February 2021

Will this van Gogh Drawing Set a Record?

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), ‘Duo des deux philosophes: à nos âges un seul verre de vin est suffisant et ne peut faire mal aux artères’ (‘Duo of the two philosophers: in our ages a single glass of wine is sufficient and cannot hurt the arteries’) [detail], drawing, ink on laid paper, signed and dated 27 June ‘10. Image © Maison de Ventes Guéry
Drawing9 December 2020

Two Matisse Drawings Discovered by Chance

Katsushika Hokusai, “Fumei Chōja and the Nine-Tailed Fox”, 1829 (detail). Fumei Chōja appears as a character in kabuki and bunraku plays that also feature the shape-changing nine-tailed fox. Image © The Trustees of the British Museum
Drawing23 September 2020

103 'Lost' Hokusai Drawings Join the British Museum

Visitors walk toward the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., located on the National Mall. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)
Drawing14 April 2020

Museum Returns a $10 Million Picasso

Richard Storey, left to right: ‘Spine’, charcoal drawing, ‘Five Pair’, drawing, and ‘Notion’, chalk drawing. Photos: Rise Art
Drawing8 April 2020

This Online Drawing Class is Free and Perfect for Lockdown

Pencil drawing of a woman is thought to perhaps be by Queen Elizabeth II. Photo: William George
Drawing26 February 2020

Drawings by Queen Elizabeth II at Auction

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