About 30 years after a London taxi driver paid £40 for an old painting at a car boot sale, experts linked it to 19th-century Amritsar and the work sold for £75,000 at a 2016 auction
- According to Antiques Trade Gazette, which documented the discovery in its 50 Great Objects collection, the painting sold for £75,000, excluding the buyer’s premium, at Roseberys in London on April 15, 2016.
- Initially catalogued with a modest estimate of £500 to £1,000, the work attracted intense bidding after specialists identifie
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- According to Antiques Trade Gazette, which documented the discovery in its 50 Great Objects collection, the painting sold for £75,000, excluding the buyer’s premium, at Roseberys in London on April 15, 2016.
- Initially catalogued with a modest estimate of £500 to £1,000, the work attracted intense bidding after specialists identifie
Sources: Times of India