Goya drawings go for $8M at auction

LONDON, July 9 (UPI) -- Three drawings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, which haven't been seen in public since 1877, have sold for $8 million at a London auction.

"Bajar rinendo (Down they come)," a work that shows four women fighting, sold for $4.4 million, twice its estimated price, and set a world record auction price for a Goya work on paper, the BBC said Wednesday.

The other two Goya sketches sold at the Christie's auction show a constable stitched inside a dead horse and a man praying in front of a cross.

The early 19th century drawings came from the artist's notebooks and were discovered in a private Swiss collection, the BBC said.