Kneeling Adolf Hitler Statue Fetches $17.2 Million At Auction
A statue of German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler has sold for a record 17.2m (£11.9m) at a New York auction house. The figure far exceeded estimates for the wax and resin sculpture of the Nazi leader by artist Maurizio Cattelan. International Business Times reports: Entitled Him, the sculpture appears to be a small child kneeling in prayer when approached from the rear but when seen from the front the viewer is confronted with the unmistakable likeness of the Nazi dictator. It was sold at the start of a week-long sale of modern, post-war and contemporary art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York.