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painting of Birmingham schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education was sold for more than 100,000 dollars at a New York auction.
Pakistani teenager Malala, 16, received treatment in Birmingham after she had been shot as she travelled to school in the Swat district of the country in October 2012.
A gunman asked for Malala by name, then pointed a Colt 45 at her and fired three shots. One bullet hit the left side of Malala’s forehead, travelled under her skin the length of her face and then into her shoulder.
Auction house Christie’s said the painting of Malala Yousafzai by Jonathan Yeo sold for 103,000 dollars.
The sale proceeds will go to the Malala Fund charity. Representatives of the fund said the money would ibe given to Nigerian charities that focus on education for women and girls in the wake of the kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls in that country.
The painting hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London last year for an exhibition of Yeo’s portraits of well-known figures, including Sienna Miller, Kevin Spacey and Rupert Murdoch.
Yeo, whose works are also in the Royal Collection, said he depicted her doing homework to reflect the irony that “the simple everyday thing she’s doing was what created the cataclysmic change in her life that nearly killed her.”
When the portrait was finished, Yeo said, Malala told him “it’s how she sees herself.”
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