Newly-discovered Goyas sell for 1.75m Euros

Two paintings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya have been bought by the Spanish Government for 1.75m euros (£1.2m) each on Thursday. Before they were known to be Goya's work, the paintings were estimated to be worth only 1,500 euros (£1,075).

The two small religious paintings, Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) and Tobias y el Angel (Tobias and the Angel), were discovered by chance last year by an art expert for Spanish auction house Alcala Subastas.

Richard De Willermin, who specialises in 17th- and 18th-century Italian and Spanish art, was appraising some other works in a home in Madrid when he spotted one of the paintings in a hallway.

Posted by David on May 9, 2003 1:07 PM