A worker holds a sketch by Nelson Mandela --"The Cell Door, Robben Island" -- on April 26, 2019 in New York City. - The sketch will be offered at Bonhams Modern and Contemporary African Art sale in New York on May 2, 2019 with an estimate of $60,000-$90,000.A drawing by late South African leader Nelson Mandela of the door of his prison cell on Robben Island - where he was held for 18 years - will be put up for auction in early May in New York.
Bonhams, which will host the sale on May 2, has put the value of"The Cell Door, Robben Island" - completed in 2002 by the Nobel peace laureate - at $60,000 to $90,000 "The word 'iconic' is so overused but to have a drawing of one of the most important men of the 20th century... would be a remarkable thing," Giles Peppiatt, the auction house's director of modern African art, told AFP.
"It's the first time this work has ever been exhibited in public. It's also the first work by Nelson Mandela ever to be sold in the open market."
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