In the United States, a painting kept in an old wardrobe for about 40 years has turned out to be worth millions of dollars. The work, forgotten in a wooden box behind fur coats, is now said to be worth about 3 million dollars (around 5 million 700 thousand manats).
According to Globalinfo.az, the curious case occurred in the Manhattan borough of New York. A woman named Betsy found the old painting inside the wardrobe while helping her elderly aunt clear out items in her home.
During the investigation, the work was identified as belonging to the famous American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. The 1930 landscape, titled “Near New Mexico I, Abiquiu”, was bought in 1963 for just 3800 dollars. But over the following decades it was kept out of sight and forgotten.
The painting will go up for sale at the “Christie’s” auction in New York on November 17. Before the auction, from November 7 to 17, the work will be on public display.
According to the report, the elderly woman who owned the painting died at the age of 98 shortly after its rediscovery. There is great interest in what price the artwork, hidden in a wardrobe for about 40 years, will fetch at auction.
Tahir Turan
Globalinfo.az
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