[Fun_4_Amdavadi_Gujarati] PICTURE KEPT IN A DRAWER IS 100 MILLION!!!!

Picture kept in a drawer 'is £100mn Da Vinci work'

Rome: A drawing of a young woman bought at auction for £11,000 and thought to be the work of an unknown artist has been attributed by several experts to Leonardo da Vinci, sending its potential value rocketing to £100mn or more, The Sunday Times reported. If confirmed, it would be the first work to be attributed to Leonardo since the Lady with an Ermine was identified as his work in the early 19th century. A Swiss-based collector, who is insisting on anonymity, bought the drawing, entitled Head of a Young Girl in Profile, at Christie's in New York in 1998. It was catalogued as "German school, early 19th century", by the auction house. The collector bought it on a whim. "He thought it was a nice, pretty thing," said his friend Peter Silverman, a Canadian collector. The owner kept the work unframed in a drawer at his home. Silverman was the first to spot Leonardo's hand in the drawing when the owner, who was showing him his collection last year, pulled it out of the drawer. "I immediately thought this could be a Florentine artist. The idea of Leonardo came to me in a flash," Silverman said. Silverman made an appointment to see experts from Lumière Technology, a Paris-based company that specialises in digital images of fine art. They used scanning technology to look at the brush strokes behind a heavy-handed 19th century restoration. The experts reported back: "You've got a Leonardo da Vinci." The drawing may portray the Lombardi aristocrat Bianca Maria Sforza before her marriage to Maximilian I. Leonardo travelled with the newly weds across the Alps. It would be the first work on parchment attributed to Leonardo. —Agencies

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