Painting bought for £100 could be Cezanne masterpiece

A British man who bought a painting from a junk shop has discovered it could be a £40,000 (€45,412) masterpiece.

Painting bought for £100 could be Cezanne masterpiece

A British man who bought a painting from a junk shop has discovered it could be a £40,000 (€45,412) masterpiece.

The unnamed buyer says he purchased the piece for less than £100 (€113.53) six years ago because he liked the frame - and has since found that experts believe it to be the earliest known work of French artist Paul Cezanne.

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