2023-09-01 05:50:35

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — When a lover of antiques bought a painting, it seemed to her that it bore the signature of N. bad. Wyeth from a thrift store in 2017, quipping that the $4 piece might be the real work of the prolific artist and patriarch of the Wyeth family of painters. However, that anecdote has become a reality .. It is expected that the painting will achieve regarding 250 thousand dollars, in an auction that will be organized in September.

According to the Bonhams Skinner auction house, the woman bought the painting without realizing its value, from the Savers thrift store in Manchester, New Hampshire, while searching for frames to reuse. Wyeth’s painting was hidden on a wall where mostly damaged posters and prints had been placed.

The woman bought the painting and took it home, where she did a quick search on the Internet, but might not find any information regarding it. She hung the painting for several years in her bedroom, then put it in a closet in her home.

And the woman found the painting once more last May, during a cleaning process for her home, and this time she published pictures of the artwork on the “Facebook” page entitled “Things on the Walls”, which is dedicated to “narratives of the pieces that you find inside the walls, and those that are placed In the backyard of the house, or at Grandma’s abandoned house.”

Comments on the post led her to contact Lorraine Lewis, a former curator who has worked on paintings for three generations of the Wyeth family: N.J. bad. Wyeth (ie Noel Convers Wyeth), his son Andrew Wyeth, and grandson Jimmy Wyeth. After seeing the painting in person, Lewis was 99% sure it was authentic, she told The Boston Globe.

The Boston Globe quoted Lewis as saying, “Although it (the painting) has had some small scratches and may need a surface cleaning, it is in such wonderful condition that none of us know how far it has come over the past 80 years.”

Most of Wyeth’s work has been producing cover art for periodicals and novels. The painting, on sale in September, is one of four he made for the 1939 edition of Helen Hunt Jackson’s “Ramona,” originally published in 1884. In it, Wyeth depicts a young woman confronting her aging adoptive mother, while a statue of a religious figure He stands in the background of the painting between the two women.

Only one painting has been recovered, according to Bonhams Skinner auction house. Its specialists believe that the publishing company Little, Brown and Company may have passed the work to an editor or to the author’s property.

As for the record achieved by selling a work by any painter from the Wyeth family at auction, it was recorded last year, during the sale of the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen at Christie’s in New York City, where Andrew Wyeth’s painting “Day Dream” was sold. in 1980, for more than $23.2 million, seven times more than the auction’s record $3 million.

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