A rare collection of masterpieces by boxer Muhammad Ali has been sold at auction for nearly $ 1 million (£ 733,760).
His 26 works of art were sent to the Bonhams auction house in New York. One of the pending works is a bee model, which sold for $ 425,000 (£ 311,853), 10 times the original estimate of its sales.
Ali was praised for being one of the best athletes, activists, and poets, but his painting art was unknown.
The Bonhams Auction Center said he painted in his life - encouraged by his father who was a painter who studied the profession and eventually studied from sports artist LeRoy Neiman.
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The paintings were put up for auction by an art collector and friend of Mohammad AliRodney Hilton Brown, who said He said his first three paintings were painted after the Boston clash. The total sale of the drawings was $ 945,524 (£ 693,788) which was three times more than expected
