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Shoulda gone to Antiques Roadshow

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27 November 2021, 09:36 AM
wtg
Shoulda gone to Antiques Roadshow
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A sketch purchased for $30 at a house clearance sale in Massachusetts is believed to be a rare artwork worth as much as $50 million, reports say.

Experts identified the drawing of a mother and child as an original by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, The Art Newspaper reported.

An unnamed man purchased the sketch in Concord, Massachusetts.

The drawing had belonged to the late architect Jean-Paul Carlhain, whose children mistakenly believed it was a 20th-century reproduction of a Dürer.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...cid=hponeservicefeed


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27 November 2021, 12:28 PM
Piano*Dad
Really hard to imagine that the original owners who sold it off yard-sale-wise knew it was Durer but just thought it was a reproduction.
27 November 2021, 03:23 PM
BeeLady
I try always to visit yard sales and the library book sale in Concord. It is a wealthy community with many older, academic sorts of families.

You never know what you might find. Shrug


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27 November 2021, 04:22 PM
wtg
Here's the whole story:

https://www.theartnewspaper.co...d-sell-for-dollar50m


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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier