Posted on 10/03/2024 12:06:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A painting bought for $50 at a New York barn sale is headed to auction and expected to fetch up to $200,000 after being identified as a 1912 piece by Canadian artist Emily Carr.
New York-based art dealer Allen Treibitz said he was at a barn sale in the Hamptons when the painting, which depicts a carved grizzly bear at the top of a totem pole, caught his eye.
"You could just tell that painting had something special about it besides the fact that it was so legibly signed, which is not often the case with most art that you see," Treibitz told Global News. "So that helped a little, but it definitely had a look and it was definitely very interesting."
He bought the painting for $50, and his research soon determined it was a piece called Masset Q.C.I. and was painted in 1912 by Carr.
The painting is now one of four works by Carr due to be auctioned by the Heffel Gallery next month in Toronto. It is expected to sell for between $100,000 and $200,000.
"I've found some interesting things in my lifetime," Treibitz said. "This is the most significant find I've ever had."
She did much better totem pole painting than that one.
much Canadian art seems to be based on totem poles and indigenous art
It was overpriced at $50. There are lots of 5th-graders who could do better.
I wonder what my 1990 Kramer would be worth now?
No mystery here. It was “legibly signed”= he googled her name and figured it was worth a punt for $50.
I wouldn’t pay $50 for that thing.
Not surprising seeing that the country is snowed in for 8 months of the year and that’s what is sticking out..........🙄
Known as junk art. Just have a look at that crayon pine tree in the background. Hunter Biden’s splash art is worth more. /spit
Look at some of her other paintings. She did interesting things with color and brush strokes. (Of course, if you’re a dyed-in-the-wool realist, you won’t get it.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Carr#/media/File:Emily_Carr_(1939)_Odds_and_Ends.jpg
/extreme sarcasm
1912 was in the period of the Cubists, Fauvists, the Abstractionists, Surrealism..............
She didn’t do abstraction, though; she still wanted to paint things in a representative way with some of the modern influences in style.
I think this style falls under the Fauvism genre..............
Fauvism Ping?...............
Yes, she traveled and studied in France.
It shows.................
wouldn’t pay a $1 for that pos.
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