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Raphael drawing sells for $48M

JER2000090503 - 05 SEPTEMBER 2000 - JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: A worker of the Israel Museum makes final lighting adjustments before the opening of a major new exhibition entitled "Landscape of the Bible: Sacred Scenes in European Master Paintings" featuring sacred scenes of the Bible by such masters as Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Poussin, Turner, Brueghel, and El Greco at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, September 5, 2000. cc/dh/Debbie Hill UPI
JER2000090503 - 05 SEPTEMBER 2000 - JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: A worker of the Israel Museum makes final lighting adjustments before the opening of a major new exhibition entitled "Landscape of the Bible: Sacred Scenes in European Master Paintings" featuring sacred scenes of the Bible by such masters as Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Poussin, Turner, Brueghel, and El Greco at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, September 5, 2000. cc/dh/Debbie Hill UPI | License Photo

LONDON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- "Head of a Muse," a 16th-century drawing by Raphael, was sold at a London auction this week for $48 million, Christie's said.

The work was expected to go for up to $26 million, but ended up setting world record auction prices for the artist and for any work on paper, the BBC said.

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Rembrandt's 17th-century painting "Portrait of a Man, Half-Length, with His Arms Akimbo," also sold for $33 million, setting a record price for the artist at auction, the British broadcaster noted.

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