{"id":11380,"date":"2021-05-10T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11380"},"modified":"2021-05-23T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:11:51","slug":"the-da-vinci-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/05\/10\/the-da-vinci-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"The da Vinci Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/da-vincis-head-bear-drawing-seen-fetching-up-16-mln-2021-05-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Da Vinci\u2019s \u2018Head of Bear\u2019 drawing seen fetching up to $16 mln<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/CEEHOBOELBPOBMYTVVEDBRAJG4.jpg\" alt=\"Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) &quot;Head of a bear&quot; drawing is seen in this undated handout image. Copyright Christie's2021\/Handout via REUTERS \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A drawing of a bear\u2019s head by Leonardo da Vinci is seen fetching up to $16.7 million, potentially setting a record, when it heads to auction in July, Christie\u2019s said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measuring 7 cm (just under 3 inches) squared, &#8220;Head of a Bear&#8221; is a silverpoint drawing on a pink-beige paper. The auction house says it is &#8220;one of less than eight surviving drawings by Leonardo still in private hands outside of the British Royal Collection and the Devonshire Collections at Chatsworth&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will lead Christie&#8217;s &#8220;Exceptional Sale&#8221; on July 8 in London with a price estimate of 8 million to 12 million pounds ($11.14 million &#8211; $16.71 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/da-vincis-head-bear-drawing-seen-fetching-up-16-mln-2021-05-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Reuters<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Reuters Da Vinci\u2019s \u2018Head of Bear\u2019 drawing seen fetching up to $16 mln A drawing of a bear\u2019s head by Leonardo da Vinci is seen fetching up to $16.7 million, potentially setting a record, when it heads to auction in July, Christie\u2019s said on Saturday. Measuring 7 cm (just under 3 inches) squared, &#8220;Head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}