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$30 flea market painting sells for record $1.3m
Original: Flea market picker strikes gold as $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting brings record $1.3m at auction
A painting by American artist Gertrude Abercrombie, bought for $30 at a flea market, has sold at auction for a record $1.3 million. The sale marks a stunning windfall for the picker who found the work and underlines the surging market for Abercrombie's surrealist paintings, with the price setting a new auction record for the artist.
Why now: The extraordinary gap between the $30 purchase price and the record $1.3m sale makes a compelling treasure-hunt story.
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- Flea market picker strikes gold as $30 Gertrude Abercrombie painting brings record $1.3m at auction · theartnewspaper.com
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