The Aporia
4 articles about 1 event for “Abercrombie Painting Auction”.
“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.”