Written by Ihab Muhammad Friday, September 08, 2023 11:00 AM
An antique lover bought a painting that she later discovered was signed by N.C. Wyeth. Its price now exceeds $250,000, even though she originally bought it for only $4, according to CNN.
According to what was reported by the Bonhams Skinner auction house, the woman bought the painting without realizing its true value, from the Savers thrift store in Manchester, New Hampshire, while searching for frames to reuse. The Wyeth painting was hidden on a wall where posters and prints were placed. Mostly damaged.
Destination painting
The woman bought the painting and took it home, where she did a quick search for it on the Internet, but was unable to find any information about it, so she hung the painting for several years in her bedroom and then put it in a closet in her house.
The woman found the painting again last May, during the process of cleaning her house, and this time she posted pictures of the artwork on a Facebook page entitled “Things on the Walls,” dedicated to “narratives of the pieces she finds inside the walls, and those that are placed in the backyard.” “At home, or at Grandma’s abandoned house.”
Comments on the post led her to contact Lauren Lewis, a former curator who has worked on paintings for three generations of the Wyeth family: N. bad. Wyeth (i.e. Noel Convers Wyeth), his son Andrew Wyeth, and his grandson Jimmy Wyeth, and after inspecting the painting in person, Lewis was 99% sure that it was authentic, she stated.
