Masterpiece featuring Irish model worth €35m

An amateur art lover walked into a Paris store, managed to knock €200 off the sale price for €1,200, and may have walked away with a €35m masterpiece featuring an Irish model.

Masterpiece featuring  Irish model worth €35m

The remarkable find of the previously unknown “head” of Gustave Courbet’s most notorious work, ‘The Origin of the World’, has rocked the art world and estimates put the find as worth at least €35m.

The new owner, who is as yet unnamed, is an amateur art lover who could not belive his luck after finding the canvas tucked away between some old pieces of furniture.

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