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Drawing

Drawing Prints Painting Photography Sculpture

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)

DrawingFebruary 6, 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

DrawingJanuary 6, 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)

DrawingApril 17, 2025

Will a Rembrandt Drawing Break Auction Records?

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

DrawingMay 14, 2024

In Conversation with Friends of Vlado Kristl

Barbara Rosina Lisiewska-de Gasc, Allegory of Hearing, signed 'peint par Rosine', oil on wood, 96 x 134 cm, gilded wooden frame (106.5 x 143 cm). Photo © Lempertz (detail)

DrawingApril 25, 2024

An Adolph Von Menzel Drawing Sells for 35X Estimate

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

DrawingFebruary 20, 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)

DrawingJanuary 10, 2024

The 10 French and Belgian Comic Strips to Collect

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

DrawingDecember 15, 2023

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

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Colosseum, engraving, 1757. Public domain image

DrawingJuly 12, 2023

Piranesi's Magical Journey into the Art of Engraving

Image © Alex Cooper Auctioneers (detail)

DrawingJune 6, 2023

A Private Collection of Klimt Drawings Go to Auction

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

DrawingFebruary 28, 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)

DrawingOctober 12, 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

DrawingSeptember 6, 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 (detail). Photo © Christie's

DrawingJune 1, 2022

Auction Records for Michelangelo’s Nude Drawing

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)

DrawingApril 8, 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

DrawingNovember 29, 2021

A Dürer Bought for $30 is Worth $50 Million

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. Public domain photo (detail)

DrawingSeptember 21, 2021

A New Van Gogh Drawing Discovered

Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), La Danse, 1898, lithograph, private collection. Public domain photo (detail)

DrawingJuly 28, 2021

7 Facts to Know about Alphonse Mucha

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

DrawingJuly 12, 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. Work of the artist © Succession H. Matisse (detail)

DrawingMay 24, 2021

A Rediscovered Matisse Drawing at Auction

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

DrawingMay 12, 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

DrawingFebruary 10, 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

DrawingDecember 9, 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

DrawingSeptember 16, 2020

103 "Lost" Hokusai Drawings Join The British Museum

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