NEW YORK: A portrait of Malala Yousafzai is expected to fetch up to $80,000 for her charity when it is auctioned in New York next month.
By Jonathan Yeo, one of Britain`s leading portrait painters, the oil on canvas has been on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London since September.
The picture, which measures nearly one metre byone metre, goes under the hammer at Christie`s on May 14.
The auction house estimates the value at $60,000 to $80,000.
`The funds raised will support the work of the Malala Fund, including helping young Syrian refugees in Jordan and girls freed from child labour now attending school in Pakistan,` said Malala.`I hope that whoever buys the painting knows that their generosity will directly help children in some of the most challenging environments in the world.
Yeo, who donated the painting, met Malala in April 2013 when she was recovering from the severe head injury inflicted by a Taliban gunman as she sat on a school bus in Swat.
