Hoffmann hare inspired by Dürer leaps to £1.02m
While Christie’s had by far the top-selling Old Master drawing of the latest series (the £7.5m Leonardo da Vinci drawing of the head of a bear - see ATG No 2501), a good number of other works on paper generated better competition although sold for understandably lower prices.
Among them was this ink and watercolour sketch on vellum by German artist Hans Hoffmann (c.1530-91…