Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheidsstrijder. But for his struggle against the apartheid regime, he was sitting in a total of 18 years in the cell as a political prisoner, before he in 1994 the first democratically elected president of South Africa. the
On the drawing, “Cell, robben island" are the bars and the keyhole of his cell door to see. the
“For my father was painting a form of entertainment, and he tried as the existence significance", said the daughter that the drawing after the death of her father inherited. “This work had a special meaning for him, because it was a lasting reminder of this, and that he could not forget, could, what a memorable one it seemed, and that freedom is not as a matter of course should be considered."
A drawing that Nelson Mandela made of the door of his cell on robben island, and delivered at an auction in New York more than 100,000 euros. Mandela's daughter, Pumla Makaziwe Mandela, had the drawing at an auction house offered.