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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Paintings attributed to Hitler fetch $143,000 Reuters - Saturday, April 25 LONDON including premium at an auction in Britain, well in excess of pre-sale estimates. Among them was a watercolor of a pensive figure sitting at the end of a stone bridge with the letters "A.H." written beside it, which sold for 10,000 pounds. The work is dated 1908, at a time when Hitler was a struggling artist in Vienna. The figure's face lacks a nose and mouth, as well the trademark square mustache. Hitler applied to art school in Vienna but was rejected, and went on to join the army and fight in World War One. An Alpine landscape painted in oils fetched 13,500 pounds. "I was completely gobsmacked to be honest," said Richard Westwood-Brookes, a historical documents expert who ran Thursday's sale for Mullock's Specialist Auctioneers and Valuers. He had expected the 12 watercolors, oil painting and two other works on offer to fetch between 400 and 1,000 pounds each. "I put their artistic merit as on a par with a good, competent amateur," Westwood-Brookes told Reuters. "But people do not want to acquire these for their artistic merit. They just want to have something that belonged to someone famous from history." He said he believed the works, all signed "A. Hitler," were genuine. An Austrian expert issued certificates of authenticity for the pictures, which once belonged to a British soldier who was stationed in Essen, Germany, in 1945. But Westwood-Brookes conceded that no one could be sure. Two years ago, 21 paintings attributed to Hitler were sold for 118,000 pounds or more than twice the pre-sale estimate, by an auction house in England. The authenticity of items associated with Hitler has long been a bone of contention. In 1983, German magazine Stern published what it said were extracts from Hitler's diaries. They were later exposed as forgeries. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Entertainment & Lifestyle Britain's music moguls affected by recessionAP - 1 hour 13 minutes ago Paintings attributed to Hitler fetch $143,000Reuters - Saturday, April 25 Leonard Nimoy open to more 'Star Trek'AP - Saturday, April 25 Latin America in spotlight at Cannes Critics' WeekAFP - Saturday, April 25 BBC sends `Ethical Man' on global warming questAP - Saturday, April 25 Most Popular – Entertainment Viewed Tigers resisting calls to surrender: S.Lanka military Fertility doctor on brink of cloning human: report Obama vows reform of credit card market Downturn hits Elton John, Paul McCartney Charred meat linked to pancreatic cancer risk View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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