{"id":42353,"date":"2016-12-12T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=42353"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T14:51:40","slug":"leonardo-da-vinci-found-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/leonardo-da-vinci-found-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Da Vinci Drawing Worth $15.8 Million Has Been Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Feature-Image-Da-Vinci.jpg\" alt=\"Da Vinci Drawing\" width=\"1265\" height=\"540\" \/> A recently unearthed drawing of St Sebastian by Leonardo Da Vinci. Credit: Tajan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nLike something out of a fairytale, auction house curator Thadd\u00e9e Prate received the shock of his life upon\u00a0discovering a long-lost drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci himself. Generally considered to be one of the finest minds in the history of the Renaissance, Da Vinci\u00a0is as much a figure of myth as a fantastic artist, making any acquisition of his work a major event. Befitting the legend, the event started when an old doctor from the provinces \u2014 who has chosen to keep his name secret \u2014 walked into the\u00a0Tajan auction house in Paris to get a valuation for\u00a014 unframed drawings left to him by his father. Upon observing a certain &#8220;interesting 16th-century drawing that required more work&#8221; featuring diagrammatic composition and right-to-left handwriting on the back, Prate\u00a0reached out to MET curator of\u00a0Italian and Spanish drawings Carmen. C Bambach for her expert opinion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/11\/arts\/design\/leonardo-da-vinci-lost-drawing-discovered.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&amp;_r=0\">According to her<\/a>, there is no doubt about the authorship:\u00a0\u201cThe attribution is quite incontestable. What we have here is an open-and-shut case. It\u2019s an exciting discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12DISCOVERY5-blog427-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Da Vinci St. Sebastian\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/> A recently unearthed drawing of St Sebastian by Leonardo Da Vinci. Credit: Tajan<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>The Da Vinci Work\u00a0Is A Lost Drawing\u00a0Of St. Sebastian<\/h2>\n<p>Considered to be the best of three studies Da Vinci made of the martyred saint, who was clubbed to death by Romans for spreading Christianity, the new discovery is the most complete attempt at depicting his suffering. Like many of the maestro&#8217;s works, it hints at something larger, such as a full-scale painting to rival his best work.<br \/>\nAccording to Dr Bambach, it is the first genuine Leonardo discovery\u00a0since 2000, when Sotheby&#8217;s sold a sheet of &#8220;Hercules with a Club and Whirlpools&#8221;<i> <\/i>for $550,000. Nevertheless, this 1492 drawing is much more impressive, with Bambach\u00a0saying that &#8220;My heart will always pound when I think about that drawing. It has so many changes of ideas, so much energy in the way he explores the figure. It has a furious spontaneity.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe current valuation at $15.8 makes it the most expensively rated Leonardo drawing of all time, a smooth $4.3 million more valuable than a silverpoint study of a horse and rider that sold in Christie\u2019s in 2001. Yet upon learning of the drawings worth, the unnamed owner said calmly: \u201cI\u2019m very pleased. But I have other interests in life other than money.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12DISCOVERY2-master675.jpg\" alt=\"Da Vinci St. Sebastian\" width=\"675\" height=\"459\" \/> The back of St Sebastian by Leonardo Da Vinci. Credit: Tajan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Future Is Uncertain<\/h2>\n<p>Where this drawing ends up, given its unravelling has just been announced, may deliver more interesting developments<em>.\u00a0<\/em>International law allows the French government to declare it a &#8220;national treasure&#8221; meaning it will end up in the Louvre opposite &#8220;The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and Mona Lisa&#8221;. Yet, given the appeal of the drawing, it may be issued an international passport so it can be sold worldwide. This could lead to conflict with multiple bidders putting in escalating offers for the drawing. Our only hope is that it ends up in a museum so everyone can see it, instead of hanging in the\u00a0living room of a billionaire.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The work is so valubale that international law allows the French government to declare it a &#8216;national treasure&#8217;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":42389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[38,7035,7036,7037,7038,7039,7040,27,2628,7041,7042,7043],"class_list":["post-42353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-art","tag-auction-house","tag-breaking-news","tag-carmen-c-bambach","tag-da-vinci","tag-drawings","tag-leonardo","tag-paris","tag-renaissance","tag-saint-sebastian","tag-thaddee-prate","tag-the-louvre"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Leonardo Da Vinci Drawing Worth $15.8 Found<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Art curator gets the shock of his life when looking over a portfolio of drawings, only to find a long-lost Da Vinci 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.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/leonardo-da-vinci-found-drawing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Leonardo Da Vinci Drawing Worth $15.8 Found\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Art curator gets the shock of his life when looking over a portfolio of drawings, only to find a long-lost Da Vinci drawing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/leonardo-da-vinci-found-drawing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-12T14:51:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Redmond Bacon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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