The intricate drawing bears the artist's trademarks and signature.
in London, since 2019. That year, Boston-based art collector and consultant Clifford Schorer was scrambling to find a last-minute present for a party when a bookseller told him about a friend who had a Dürer drawing and asked him if he’d be willing to take a look at it. Schorer agreed but was skeptical, as no high-quality pieces by the artist had been discovered in more than a century.
“It was like [experiencing] a kind of electricity. When you’re in my world you spend your life looking for unknown things that lead to fascinating research avenues, I could see I was at the beginning of something extremely exciting,” he told the network. Schorer has spent the last three years doing everything he could to verify the drawing, including flying around the world to consult Dürer experts. The artwork, which is believed to have been completed in 1503, has undergone age analysis and bears the artist’s trademarks and signature, suggesting it is in fact by him. It has yet to go up for auction, but Schorer believes it can easily sell for in excess of $10 million.