Posted on 11/18/2023 7:26:23 PM PST by algore
A retired dog walker was bequeathed a painting by an artist whose works sell for millions - but got a nasty shock when he auctioned it for what he hoped would be $10 million.
Mark Herman, 68, was given the abstract work by Chuck Close by his friend and former customer, Isidore Silver, a retired lawyer.
Silver, 87, had represented Close in a high profile First Amendment case against the University of Massachusetts in the 1960s, after the institution tried to ban him from displaying nude content as part of an exhibition of his work
A retired dog walker was bequeathed a painting by an artist whose works sell for millions - but got a nasty shock when he auctioned it for what he hoped would be $10 million.
Mark Herman, 68, was given the abstract work by Chuck Close by his friend and former customer, Isidore Silver, a retired lawyer.
Silver, 87, had represented Close in a high profile First Amendment case against the University of Massachusetts in the 1960s, after the institution tried to ban him from displaying nude content as part of an exhibition of his work.
He was given the abstract nude by his former client and bequeathed it to Herman in his final days, after the two became good friends when Herman begun working as a dog walker for his beloved toy Poodle.
Other works by Close have fetched as much $4.8 million at auction and following a months long struggle to prove the painting's authenticity, Herman finally seemed poised to scoop a major payout.
'I was on cloud nine,' he told the New York Times. He even hallucinated that he would sell the painting for as much as $10M - while he was tripping on magic mushrooms
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Clearly someone with a messed up mind created that conglomeration of nothingness.
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