Mandela prison drawing sells for $112,575 in New York

The Cell Door, Robben Island -- completed in 2002 by the Nobel peace laureate -- exceeded the top end of the estimated range provided by Bonhams, which put its value at $60,000 to $90,000.

The work is one of the few that Mandela -- who was jailed for 27 years in total and inspired the struggle against apartheid -- kept until his death in 2013.South Africa's first black president did a total of 20 to 25 drawings, according to Giles Peppiatt, the auction house's director of modern African art. Some were reproduced as lithographs to raise money for the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Who cares....

I draw better than this.

Lol come on

I wonder whether this one was signed by the signature machine?

It can be any cell.

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