shells from an alderman's collection. now worth more than his entire ward.
Painting bought for $30 at estate sale sells for $1.35 million
A long-lost 1951 painting by Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, 'Alderman Merriam's Shells,' sold for $1.35 million at Freeman's Auctions after a treasure hunter bought it for $30 at a July estate sale in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Experts say the artist gave the work to Kalamazoo doctor John Reynolds in 1952 in exchange for a medical procedure, and it stayed with his family roughly 75 years. The hammer price crushed the $150,000 to $250,000 estimate and set a record for the artist.
Source: Painting bought for $30 at estate sale sells for $1.35 million — UPI Odd News
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