Old Masters, Watercolors and Comic Books

Sotheby's saw a range of surprises in its Old Master drawings, Evening and Day sales; A British watercolor resource gets a big reception; Heritage Auctions sold a record $58m in comic books in 2018.

Is That You, Mona Lisa?

Follower of Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa ($80-120k) $1.695m

During Wednesday’s Old Master drawings sale at Sotheby’s, a drawing from Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari sold for many multiples of its estimate. Experts in the field point to Rubens’s The Fight for the Standard and the fact the drawing came with a Dutch Royal provenance sug…