In 1966, a New York art teacher paid under $100 for a thrift-store painting and kept it for nearly 60 years; after her son investigated its faded signature, experts identified it as an F.C.B. Cadell work that sold for £189,200
A painting bought for less than $100 at a thrift store in White Plains, New York, in 1966 has been sold for £189,200 at auction after experts identified it as a work by Scottish artist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell. According to Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull, the painting, titled ‘Interior: The Lady in Black’,…