An Arab sheikh paid nearly $38,000 for a painting by Britain’s Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and the money has been used to fund the building of a school in Darfur, in western Sudan, it has been revealed.
The heir to the British throne (pictured below) painted and signed the lithograph, which depicts the terrace at his home in Highgrove in south west England, and it was gifted to the Children’s charity Kids For Kids.
The framed painting was sold by the charity at a celebrity auction in 2012 and bought by businessman Andrew Mead for £7,500 ($11,371), the Daily Mail reported.
Mead subsequently sold the painting to an anonymous sheikh at an auction in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh for £25,000 ($37,905) and donated the money back to the children’s charity, the report added.
The money raised from the sale of the painting has since been used to help fund the building of a new kindergarden school in Sudan.
Patricia Parker MBE, chief executive of Kids For Kids, said: “It is incredible to think that this new school has come from the proceeds of a single work by the Prince.”
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