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Australian Paintings Found in Texas

Started by riky, January 09, 2009, 07:01:16 AM

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Australian Paintings Found in Texas
      


Similar to my recent post about the "discovered" You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login painting but much less fantastical, moderately valuable Australian paintings have been showing up in Texas.

Late last year two Australian paintings were bought from Texas thrift stores and charity shops for very small amounts and have been valued by auction houses for much higher amounts.

A painting by John Coburn (famous for his tapestries and abstract work) was bought for $45 and is now worth $20,000, and a Grace Cossington Smith ("pioneer of the Australian modernist movement") was bought for $25 and is now valued at $45,000.

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