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  • Painting bought for $50 at barn sale expected to fetch up to $200,000

    10/03/2024 12:06:45 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    UPI ^ | October 03, 2024 | Ben Hooper
    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...