| LONDON, July 9 (UPI) -- Three drawings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, which haven't been seen in public since 1877, have sold for $8 million at a London auction. SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL DEALS "Bajar rinendo (Down they come)", a work that shows four women fighting, sold for $4.4 million, twice its estimated price, and set a world record auction price for a Goya work on paper, the BBC said Wednesday. The other two Goya sketches sold at the Christie's auction show a constable stitched inside a dead horse and a man praying in front of a cross. The early 19th century drawings came from the artist's notebooks and were discovered in a private Swiss collection, the BBC said. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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