Wisconsin shopper paid $29 for painting; it later sold for $882,500
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·3 viewsIn a remarkable turn of events, a man from Wisconsin stumbled upon a magnolia painting for just $29 at a rummage sale in the 1990s. A decade later, the artwork was authenticated as the work of esteemed American artist Martin Johnson Heade. Auctioned at Christie’s, it fetched an astonishing $882,500, shattering initial estimates of $300,000 to $500,000.
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