$4 thrift shop picture turns out to be an N.C. Wyeth, expected to fetch $250k

at upcoming auction:



https://news.artnet.com/market/thrift-store-buy-nc-wyeth-2355493/amp-page

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Woman Bought a $4 Painting at a Thrift Store for Its Frame. Now, It’s Been Revealed as an N.C. Wyeth, Worth as Much as $250,000
The painting was identified as the work of iconic American illustrator N.C. Wyeth, thanks to help from a local conservator.

Sometimes a frame is worth more than a picture. That was the hope of one woman as she searched through a stack of old frames during a trip to Savers, a thrift shop in New Hampshire a few years ago.

Among the old posters and damaged prints, a framed dusty painting stood out, and the woman bought it for $4. After she did some brief research online and failed to identify the work, she stored it in closet. There, it was quickly forgotten about until May of this year, when the woman stumbled across the painting during a spring clean and decided to post the work on the Facebook group “Things Found in Walls.”....(more)