Ammon News - A tiny chalk drawing of a lion by Rembrandt recently sold for the record-setting price of $18m in New York City to benefit the conservation of big cats.

After selling at a Sotheby’s auction Wednesday, Young Lion Resting shattered the previous mark for the most expensive drawing by the 17th-century Dutch painter ever auctioned: the $3.7m Portrait of a Man with Arms Akimbo.

Young Lion Resting’s sellers Thomas Kaplan – the billionaire US philanthropist – and his associate Jon Ayers said they were dedicating the proceeds generated by the auction to their prominent wildcat conservation charity, Panthera.

The Guardian