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A Dürer Bought for $30 is Worth $50 Million
barnebys.com ^ | November 28, 2021 | Gritta von Toll

Posted on 12/01/2021 3:11:59 PM PST by bitt

Considered a reproduction and purchased for just $30, a drawing by German master Albrecht Dürer is now estimated at $50 million. It is currently being exhibited in London.

In 2016, during a garage sale in Concord, near Boston, a bargain hunter stumbled upon a design bearing the famous monogram of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. The sellers, who had inherited the work, assumed it was a modern reproduction and sold it to him for $30.

Three years later, Clifford Schorer, an associate at Agnews Gallery in London, heard of the story during a stay in Boston. He immediately knew he had to see the design with his own eyes. “It was an incredible moment when I saw the Dürer,” Schorer told The Art Newspaper. “It was either the greatest forgery I have ever seen—or a masterpiece.”

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Society
KEYWORDS: 50million; drer; durer; lutherans; taxes
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1 posted on 12/01/2021 3:11:59 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/01/2021 3:12:12 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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3 posted on 12/01/2021 3:12:54 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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very cool.


4 posted on 12/01/2021 3:13:33 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: bitt

It’s nice, but it’s not worth 50 mil.


5 posted on 12/01/2021 3:13:45 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Lazamataz

It will be after Hunter colors in between the lines


6 posted on 12/01/2021 3:15:33 PM PST by shotgun
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To: bitt

I thought it said “driver.”


7 posted on 12/01/2021 3:17:11 PM PST by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: bitt

This guy will make a few bucks sure but imagine how attractive an original Bidene’ would be in any collection.


8 posted on 12/01/2021 3:18:50 PM PST by enduserindy (Brian Schnepf)
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To: Lazamataz

The guy only needs one buyer, with deep pockets, to believe that it is.


9 posted on 12/01/2021 3:20:59 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: shotgun

Lol paint by numbers.


10 posted on 12/01/2021 3:23:46 PM PST by hercuroc
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To: bitt

Many of Albrecht Durer’s pen and ink sketches resemble those of Salvador Dali, in that both tended to use only one or two widths of line and both used a lot of triangles throughout their compositions.

Durer often used the eight head’s tall or elongated figure, vs the more common five heads. Both artists were, of course masters at their work.


11 posted on 12/01/2021 3:24:28 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Lazamataz
"It’s nice, but it’s not worth 50 mil."

It is now. They're not being bought as works of art, they're being bought as commodities. That's especially the case with modern art crap like Pollocks and Rothkos, which are being monetizied by people who need someplace discrete to park their money.

12 posted on 12/01/2021 3:24:55 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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Fine Art
13 posted on 12/01/2021 3:33:55 PM PST by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight of Faith" )
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To: Lazamataz

“It’s nice, but it’s not worth 50 mil.”

Because you don’t have $50 million to blow on art.


14 posted on 12/01/2021 3:35:22 PM PST by dljordan (Slouching towards Woketopia)
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To: shotgun

Now thats the best post on this thread! LOL.


15 posted on 12/01/2021 3:53:13 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: enduserindy
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16 posted on 12/01/2021 4:02:49 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: steve8714
"I thought it said "driver.""

I thought it said "dryer" (clothes dryer) and immediately followed with the thought that for that much money, it better fold, hang and put away the laundry.

17 posted on 12/01/2021 4:05:25 PM PST by fini
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To: bitt
Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer, Selbstbildnis mit 26 Jahren (Prado, Madrid).jpg
Dürer's self-portrait at 26, Prado Museum

Born: 21 May 1471 Nuremberg, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire

Died: 6 April 1528 (aged 56) Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire

No wonder they thought it was a modern reproduction piece.

18 posted on 12/01/2021 4:08:40 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: lee martell
That explaines this cover art. Kewl info. PS - great music!
19 posted on 12/01/2021 4:21:19 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: bitt

“My butt’s been wiped!”


20 posted on 12/01/2021 4:59:32 PM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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