“he paid $1,356.69 to have a furniture restorer clean the painting”
I think I see the problem.
When you hire a guy who specializes in stripping varnish, what do you think they are going to do to your oil painting?
It looks like it was “cleaned” using a box of crayons.
Insurance is paid and the real painting is in a vault somewhere?
He shouldn’t have used Mr. Bean’s restoration service
Who in the hell is so STUPID to take a valued piece of art to a furniture restorer you can’t fix STUPID!!!
Got his $1,300 worth.
I’m an artist. This is deliberate sabotage. There is no way this is “a botched restoration.”
The original needed nothing more than a gentle wiping with linseed oil. Some fool painted over it with what appears to be acrylic. If that is the case it will peel off, because the oil paint will not allow the acrylic to stick.
A furniture re finisher restores wood, not oil on linen.
That said, there is much more here than we are being told.
Isn’t this story three years old?
apparently NOT a Babylon bee headline ...
probably shouldn’t have gone with the low bidder ...
CHER!