{"id":679,"date":"2021-05-14T08:13:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=679"},"modified":"2021-05-13T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T03:19:55","slug":"small-scale-da-vinci-drawing-expected-to-set-new-auction-record-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/small-scale-da-vinci-drawing-expected-to-set-new-auction-record-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Small-Scale da Vinci Drawing Expected to Set New Auction Record This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study of a bear by\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_leonardo-da-vinci\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/\" data-tag=\"leonardo-da-vinci\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>\u00a0is poised to break the artist\u2019s auction record for a single drawing. The work, titled\u00a0<em>Head of a Bear,\u00a0<\/em>will be offered in the Exceptional Sale at Christie\u2019s in London on July 8, with an estimate of $11.2 million to $16.9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring approximately 8 square inches, the drawing is part of a series of small-scale studies of animals that the famous polymath executed around 1480. Da Vinci produced\u00a0<em>Head of a Bear<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0paper using a silverpoint, depicting the carnivore with a gentle gaze. The work is one of only eight known da Vinci drawings still in private hands, not counting those owned by the British Royal Collection and the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Hall, chairman of Old Master paintings at Christie\u2019s in New York, said in a statement that the drawing has been owned by \u201csome of the most distinguished collectors in the field of Old Masters across many centuries, not least the present owner who has owned it since 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work was once held in the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence, a British painter from the Georgian period known for his significant holdings of Old Master drawings. It has previously been displayed at museums including the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, and the National Gallery in London. The drawing will be exhibited in New York and Hong Kong before hitting the block later this summer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"af-comp \">\n<div class=\"article-options-comp\">\n<div class=\"icon-comp regular-icon \">\u201cAfter having sold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>\u2019s drawing\u00a0<em>Horse and Rider<\/em>\u00a0in 2001 for over \u00a38m ($11m), still the world record for a drawing by the artist today, Christie\u2019s is proud to offer another work by arguably the greatest draughtsman the world has ever known,\u201d Stijn Alsteens, international head of the Old Masters drawings department at Christie\u2019s in Paris, said in a statement. \u201cI have every reason to believe we will achieve a new record in July for\u00a0<em>Head of a Bear<\/em>.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of a bear by\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci\u00a0is poised to break the artist\u2019s auction record for a single drawing. The work, titled\u00a0Head of a Bear,\u00a0will be offered in the Exceptional Sale at Christie\u2019s in London on July 8, with an estimate of $11.2 million to $16.9 million. Measuring approximately 8 square inches, the drawing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artist","8":"category-auction","9":"category-events","10":"category-gallery","11":"category-latest-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Small-Scale da Vinci Drawing Expected to Set New Auction Record This Summer - Investable Art Auctioneer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A study of a bear by\u00a0Leonardo da Vinci\u00a0is poised to break the artist\u2019s auction record for a single drawing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/small-scale-da-vinci-drawing-expected-to-set-new-auction-record-this-summer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Small-Scale da Vinci Drawing Expected to Set New Auction Record This Summer - 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