The drawing itself is a simple one, showing a skyline behind a ribbon of road.
New York City’s most famous landmarks, like the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the Statue of Liberty, are not visible. But Trump Tower stands in the middle. The future president used vertical lines and a jagged roof to illustrate its famous stepped facade.
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And he signed the sketch at the bottom, in his golden ink.
The auction house had described the drawing as 11.5 by 9 inches, “and very rare, with only a handful of such drawings known.”
It was sketched by Mr. Trump as part of a charity event benefiting the fight against illiteracy in September 2005. According to a news release for the event, other participants included the racecar driver Jeff Gordon, the actress Charlize Theron and — oddly enough — the Republican senator from Arizona, John McCain, who has found himself at odds with Mr. Trump, most recently on Friday morning, when he voted to block the latest effort to repeal Obamacare.
Despite Mr. Trump’s controversial early months in office, there’s a reason a small memento of ink on paper was able to fetch such a high price just 12 years after its creation.
“People will bid a lot of money for controversial political leaders’ artwork,” said Sam Heller, the public relations director at Nate D. Sanders. “So the auction house is very pleased that it tripled the original bidding price.”
The drawing did not command the highest price at this auction, which had more than 200 pieces of history for sale. A signed photograph of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue sold for $125,000, and the original artwork for a “Prince Valiant” comic strip from 1939 was sold for $70,461.
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