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Barras bargain fetches thousands | |
(about 12 hours later) | |
A painting which was bought at Glasgow's Barras market for 50p has been sold for £34,800 at auction in Edinburgh. | |
The painting, "Chopping logs outside a snow covered cabin", by 19th Century artist Cornelius David Krieghoff, was purchased by an anonymous buyer. | |
The seller, also anonymous, said he bought it for "10 bob" about 30 years ago "simply because he liked it". | |
He was said to be "surprised" and "delighted" by the sale. | |
Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam in the early 19th Century and married a French Canadian in Manhattan. They later moved to Canada. | |
Nick Curnow, head of pictures and managing director of auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull, said "It is the sort of find everybody dreams of." | |
"He (Krieghoff) depicts ordinary people with sympathy, humour, attention to detail, and a lack of idealisation." | "He (Krieghoff) depicts ordinary people with sympathy, humour, attention to detail, and a lack of idealisation." |
The painting depicts a log cabin in Krieghoff's adopted Canada. | |
Mr Curnow said: "It preserves a way of life and customs that would have ordinarily been lost." |
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