Auction wraps up for Danish cartoon on Prophet Mohammed
The Hindu
Original edition of controversial Danish cartoon depicting Prophet Mohammed up for auction, bidding closes Friday.
Bidding closes Friday in the online auction of the original edition of a Danish cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed that provoked violent riots in Muslim countries.
Published together with 11 other drawings in September 2005 by the conservative Danish daily Jyllands-Posten under the title "The Face of Mohammed", the cartoon shows the Prophet with a bomb-shaped turban.
The auction house said its creator Kurt Westergaard kept the original drawing private for years "and it is now officially up for sale for the first time ever."
The sale opened on February 25 and is due to close at 4:00 p.m. (1500 GMT), online auction house kwicons.com said.
Westergaard had been working at the paper since the mid-1980s as an illustrator.
He died in 2021, aged 86, after living for more than 15 years under police protection at a secret address.
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