Posted on 12/01/2021 3:11:59 PM PST by bitt
Considered a reproduction and purchased for just $30, a drawing by German master Albrecht Dürer is now estimated at $50 million. It is currently being exhibited in London.
In 2016, during a garage sale in Concord, near Boston, a bargain hunter stumbled upon a design bearing the famous monogram of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. The sellers, who had inherited the work, assumed it was a modern reproduction and sold it to him for $30.
Three years later, Clifford Schorer, an associate at Agnews Gallery in London, heard of the story during a stay in Boston. He immediately knew he had to see the design with his own eyes. “It was an incredible moment when I saw the Dürer,” Schorer told The Art Newspaper. “It was either the greatest forgery I have ever seen—or a masterpiece.”
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very cool.
It’s nice, but it’s not worth 50 mil.
It will be after Hunter colors in between the lines
I thought it said “driver.”
This guy will make a few bucks sure but imagine how attractive an original Bidene’ would be in any collection.
The guy only needs one buyer, with deep pockets, to believe that it is.
Lol paint by numbers.
Many of Albrecht Durer’s pen and ink sketches resemble those of Salvador Dali, in that both tended to use only one or two widths of line and both used a lot of triangles throughout their compositions.
Durer often used the eight head’s tall or elongated figure, vs the more common five heads. Both artists were, of course masters at their work.
It is now. They're not being bought as works of art, they're being bought as commodities. That's especially the case with modern art crap like Pollocks and Rothkos, which are being monetizied by people who need someplace discrete to park their money.
“It’s nice, but it’s not worth 50 mil.”
Because you don’t have $50 million to blow on art.
Now thats the best post on this thread! LOL.
I thought it said "dryer" (clothes dryer) and immediately followed with the thought that for that much money, it better fold, hang and put away the laundry.
Dürer's self-portrait at 26, Prado Museum
Born: 21 May 1471 Nuremberg, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
Died: 6 April 1528 (aged 56) Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
No wonder they thought it was a modern reproduction piece.
That explaines this cover art. Kewl info. PS - great music!
“My butt’s been wiped!”
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