A 16th-century painting, forgotten in an Iowa gallery closet, has been found to be worth millions. Warren, while looking through the closet of a gallery, found a "dingy and damaged" painting hidden behind a table, which turns out to be the work of Dutch master Otto van Veen. This painting is worth $4 million. What warren thought was an auction sticker turned out to be a stamp showing that the painting hung in the MOMA, New York's metropolitan museum of art.
I think this is especially important to us visual kids cause it shows how art can be preserved over time, you just gotta die before you get famous yay. I synthesize this to the environmental conservation movement during Roosevelts presidency where the Hudson River School made some cool paintings of America.
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/us/apollo-venus-iowa-painting-discovery-trnd/index.html
Once I heard a lady bought a painting at a thrift store because the frame was pretty; she planned to paint over it. Then she somehow found out it was a lost art piece and made lots of cash on it.
ReplyDeleteI feel like us visual kids need more art history education,so we can identify art in situations like this.
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