A man spent $300 on a painting at a thrift sale. It could be worth millions

FOX News ^ | By Chris Ciaccia

[Red Badger]

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 230 British pounds ($293), even though he believed to be fake because he "loved the picture," SWNS reports. Acting on a whim, Stapleton took it 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.

[Red Badger]

Picasso sometimes just gave away paintings to strangers for admiring his work.................

[Vigilanteman]

Marc Chagall was famous for writing checks for nearly everything he bought. Many of the recipients would never cash the checks and just keep it as a souvenir.

[rktman]

No doubt he’ll share his good fortune with whoever he bought it from. If it’s real.

[US_MilitaryRules]

I guess he’ll be showing up on Pawn Stars with it. And then Rick will be calling someone who knows a little bit about art! lol

[NativeSon]

How can I get the gubmint and banks to go along with that for me?

[Windflier]

Love these kinds of stories.

[Red Badger]

Yeah, riiiiight.................

[Vigilanteman]

Become a famous artist like Marc Chagall?

[Red Badger]

Easy, just paint a lot of weird stuff, then become a famous dead painter.............

[Windflier]

Picasso sometimes just gave away paintings to strangers for admiring his work.

He would also scribble drawings on checks that he wrote for goods and services, knowing that many people wouldn't cash them.

[Red Badger]

Gee, Why didn’t I think of that!............

[dfwgator]

He would also scribble drawings on checks that he wrote for goods and services, knowing that many people wouldn't cash them.

LOL, smart guy.

[rktman]

He obviously didn’t know me. ;-)

[cherry]

I’ve got two items from goodwill that I hope will make me richer...one is a sketch but I can’t prove who did it and another is an original watercolor by a woman known as the “grandma Moses of California” and she did have paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art...

[Red Badger]

I think a lot of those stories are staged.............

[Buckeye McFrog]

When I was a tiny tot (1968) my mom decided to furnish the house in modern.

This included a print of a Chagall painting of a chicken. I remember it well.

One day it suddenly disappeared. My mom years later revealed that one day she was sitting on the couch and noticed that while on the surface it seemed to be a chicken, when looked at in the right way it was actually a couple engaged in coitus.

Being a preschooler I only ever saw the chicken.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think a lot of those stories are staged.............

Gotta do something if you want to keep syndicating Storage Wars.

[painter]

I guess he’ll be showing up on Pawn Stars with it. And then Rick will be calling someone who knows a little bit about art! lol
<p. Then offer him $500.00 for it!

[Vigilanteman]

Chagall couldn’t beat Picasso for weirdness, but they definitely played in the same league.