A man paid just $60 for two paintings at an Arizona estate sale in 1996, then discovered they were genuine Martin Johnson Heade artworks worth $1.072 million; the sellers later went to court but lost
- Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth (c.
- 1890) by Martin Johnson HeadePhoto credit: https://www.nga.gov/In 1996, Carl Rice attended an Arizona estate sale, spotted two framed oil paintings priced at $30 each, and paid the $60 asking price without expecting anything extraordinary.
- He liked the subject matter of one painting and the frame of the other, but assumed that paintings sold so cheaply by a professionally managed estate could not be original works by a major artist.
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- Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth (c.
- 1890) by Martin Johnson HeadePhoto credit: https://www.nga.gov/In 1996, Carl Rice attended an Arizona estate sale, spotted two framed oil paintings priced at $30 each, and paid the $60 asking price without expecting anything extraordinary.
- He liked the subject matter of one painting and the frame of the other, but assumed that paintings sold so cheaply by a professionally managed estate could not be original works by a major artist.
Sources: Times of India