LONDON - Three sketches by Goya presumed lost for 130 years have sold for a total of about $8 million.
Christie's says the sketches first went up for auction in Paris in 1877 and were presumed lost until a private Swiss collector contacted the auction house about them.
One sketch titled "They go down quarrelling" - which depicts four women fighting as they fall through the air - sold in London for about $4.6 million.
The sketches come from the private notebooks of Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. During the last three decades of his life, the Spanish artist used the notebooks to draw people in various moods and situations.
Goya died in 1828.
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