A $9.99 Goodwill find turned out to be a $27,000 famous painting.
When North Carolina artist Beth Feedback, who specializes in portraits of cats, came home back from Goodwill with a $9.99 painting she thought that she thought that she has fund the right size of canvas to upcycle for her own work. But once she a name printed on the back of the canvas she decided to do a quick Google search.
It turned out that the painting that she purchased to be an authentic abstract painting by Ilya Bolotowsky.
A few months and a Sotheby’s consultation later, ABC News reports that Feeback has sold her find for an impressive $27,000 at auction.
The bidding began at Sotheby’s New York on September 21st, with the painting earning a hammer price of $34,375 (including the unidentified buyer’s premium). It far exceeded its estimated auction block price, which was set at $15,000-20,000.
Feeback watched the auction action from her home, stating to ABC News she was nervous that the painting wouldn’t sell. “We could see that some of the paintings sold for much more [than] the value that the auction house had put on them and some sold for much less and an uncomfortable number of them did not sell at all.”
What will she do now that her prized possession has been sold? She has plans to produce a series of knockoff “Vertical Diamond” paintings with her own special addition — funky acrylic images of cats, ABC news reports.
