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“A painting bought for just $30 at a Michigan estate sale has sold for $1,352,600 at auction in New York, after experts identified it as a long-lost 1951 work by Chicago Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie.”

“In the exhibition catalogue, he found a 1952 Chicago Tribune photograph of the painting in its original frame, displayed alongside the actual shells Abercrombie had painted.”

“A painting snagged at an estate sale for just $30 sold at auction for a record-breaking $1.35 million.”

“The 1951 painting by American Surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie has since been authenticated and is now estimated to sell for $150,000 to $250,000 at Freeman’s New York on October 1.”

“A clairvoyant collector with an eagle eye for quality art snagged a painting at a Michigan estate sale this summer for a mere $30 — and now it’s expected to fetch up to $250,000 at a Manhattan auction.”