Three drawings of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and the schedule shall be forfeited 130 years ago, found and put up for auction house Christie July

Three drawings of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and the schedule shall be forfeited 130 years ago, found and put up for auction in July at home with Christie's estimated that 2 million pounds sterling. Writes newspaper The Times, found the work not related to any of the famous series of paintings or the artist.

These pictures were part of one of the artist albums sold in Paris in 1877. 105 designs were then evaluated in amounts ranging from 6 to 140 francs, which, even at the price of XIX century, there is little to Goya. After the sale in Paris next few pictures is hopelessly lost. Once again, they were discovered in Switzerland in a private collection, which the owners do not know how and when the drawings came to the family.

found in Switzerland, designs are distinguished by the exceptional preservation: they have never exhibited, they were kept in the dark, without a frame.

One of the drawings depicted deruschiesya woman flying through the air, on the second - prayer person, whose face resembles a person in a picture «Creek» Norwegian expressionist Edvard Munch, the third - person, protect a dead horse. The last sketch accompanied by a detailed commentary of Goya: in the middle of the XVIII century in Zaragoza peasants punished local officials, persecuting women and students, zashiv him alive in the belly is a dead horse.

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