$5 painting sells for $1m in US
A man who paid $5 (€4.09) for a painting by still-life artist Joseph Decker that had been sitting in a garage for more than 60 years has sold it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington for $1m (€819,000).
The unidentified 29-year-old actor found the painting of Decker’s Ripening Pears (circa 1884-85) wrapped in a blanket while rummaging through a garage sale in Los Angeles three years ago, according to the report in ARTnewsletter.
