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2 days agoRare Rembrandt Drawing Nets Record-Smashing $18 Million at Auction
Rembrandt's Young Lion Resting sold for $18 million at Sotheby's New York, becoming the most valuable drawing by the artist sold at auction.
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"Rembrandt's etchings were an enduring passion for the late Sam Josefowitz, whose collection of the Dutch master's graphic works remains unparalleled by any other 20th-century collector," the house said in a statement.
German police say they've broken up an international art forgery ring that tried to sell works purportedly by Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Frida Kahlo and others for tens of millions of dollars to unsuspecting collectors. The scheme was allegedly led by a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria with the help of ten accomplices, according to a press release from the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office.