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A man spent $300 on a painting at a thrift sale. It could be worth millions
FoxNews.com ^ | June 7, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

Posted on 06/07/2019 10:28:25 PM PDT by ETL

Philip Stapleton was perusing a thrift sale in the U.K.

when he came across a painting he liked so much, he spent nearly $300 on it, even though he assumed it was fake.

But after doing some research and talking to experts, the 52-year-old antique collector may have made the purchase of a lifetime – an original work by Pablo Picasso.

Stapleton said that he spent $293, even though he believed it to be fake because he "loved the picture," SWNS reports.

Acting on a whim, Stapleton took it to Brighton and Hove Auction House, where he received the potentially good news.

“It is so exciting - one of our regular buyers came into the auction house with what he felt was a picture that had Picasso on it - he didn’t know that it was anything special," Brighton and Hove Auctions general manager Rosie May said in comments obtained by SWNS. ..."

“So if this is the genuine article, it’s never been seen before and we’re talking life-changing sums of money for the owner.

It’s an exciting time for us because we do this business to help people.”

The painting is set to go up for auction later this month.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Local News
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To: miss marmelstein; All
Ah! The enlightened art crowd of Free Republic weighs in with the usual results.

Here are a few examples of what I'm referring to...

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21 posted on 06/08/2019 6:29:56 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

The media has to have an “only one” in each field.

Picasso was chosen as their “only one” for “Art”.

It got to the point where if Picasso wiped his nose on a piece of paper they would say, “Look! It’s a masterpiece.”


22 posted on 06/08/2019 6:30:37 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: miss marmelstein; All
Ah! The enlightened art crowd of Free Republic weighs in with the usual results.


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23 posted on 06/08/2019 6:36:13 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: MarvinStinson
The media has to have an “only one” in each field. Picasso was chosen as their “only one” for “Art”. It got to the point where if Picasso wiped his nose on a piece of paper they would say, “Look! It’s a masterpiece.”

It was apparently chosen precisely because it was so ugly and repulsive. Just one more way for the hardcore commie left to screw up our culture.

24 posted on 06/08/2019 6:54:20 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

As some of you know I dabble in art.

When I was young I went to a Shadchan - a marriage broker - to try and find a match.

Now at that time I was very handsome, had money, a good job, etc.

So the guy finally calls me with “the perfect girl.”

I go and meet her.

The longest hour of my life. She was UGLY!

(and utterly boring.)

I went home and called him up:

“What the heck were you thinking? That girl had one ear out to here, a crooked nose, one eye up here... The other down here...”

So he just waits for me to finish and says...

“Well you’re an artist, aren’t you? Either you like Picasso or you don’t”


25 posted on 06/08/2019 7:27:02 AM PDT by golux
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To: golux

LOL and Oy vey! Sounds like a Jackie Mason story.


26 posted on 06/08/2019 7:29:53 AM PDT by ssaftler (The opinions expressed here have not been peer reviewed, fact checked or focus group tested.)
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To: ETL

If all of you are going to be art critics here you might try putting up images of Guernica and Les Demoiselles D’Avignon and explain to us why those works are not masterpieces and seminal events in 20th Century art?

Heavenly Gertrude Stein, save me from freeper art critics!


27 posted on 06/08/2019 9:14:07 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Cutting through all that mumble-jumble, could you please tell us what YOU think of the ‘art’ of Pablo Picasso?


28 posted on 06/08/2019 9:18:30 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

How could anyone not love that drawing? And pay far more than its perceived value? /sarc


29 posted on 06/08/2019 9:22:03 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: ETL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43XjuhInkU

Pablo Picasso by the Modern Lovers. Some bad language.

Love Jonathan Richman.


30 posted on 06/08/2019 9:22:18 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ETL

I think he was a very great artist. Very highly trained, btw, if you look at his early work before he created Cubism. You can enjoy the Hudson River artists, you know, as well as the French and German expressionists and Cubists and everyone who came after.


31 posted on 06/08/2019 9:22:33 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein





32 posted on 06/08/2019 9:27:53 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

I see you took my post seriously/s. I’ve always been embarrassed by freeper stupidity when it came to the arts. You are a living example of it.


33 posted on 06/08/2019 9:32:52 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: davius
He paid far more for the painting than its worth.

Not exactly an Econ major, are ya? Did you go to school with AOC?

An item is worth what someone will pay for it. Plenty of people will pay a lot for that painting, just for the nameplate. Thus, it is worth a lot. The buyer bought low and will sell high, as any wise invest should. It is wealth creation, capitalism, and investing at there finest. Good for him.

34 posted on 06/08/2019 9:37:03 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Teacher317

(getting really tired of “auto-correct” changing my words to make my Grammar Nazi posts look highly hypocritical... obviously “wise investor” and “their”.)


35 posted on 06/08/2019 9:40:48 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: miss marmelstein
I’ve always been embarrassed by freeper stupidity when it came to the arts. You are a living example of it.

To each his own...

BTW, I DO like various abstract art. Abstract art varies widely in style and quality.




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36 posted on 06/08/2019 9:47:40 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: miss marmelstein
I’ve always been embarrassed by freeper stupidity when it came to the arts. You are a living example of it.

To be clear, I actually like some of his work, at least in terms of color and composition. But to put him in the same universe as the great portrait and landscape painters of the past is beyond ridiculous.

37 posted on 06/08/2019 9:54:25 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: miss marmelstein

38 posted on 06/08/2019 9:55:17 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: golux

LOl! Thanks for that.


39 posted on 06/08/2019 9:59:26 AM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

I have received more money with a $2 ticket. Where is the proof?


40 posted on 06/08/2019 10:50:39 AM PDT by keving (We the government)
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