Post by: AngelOfThyNight on March 02, 2019, 06:40:19 PM
In 2014, French auctioneer Marc Labarbe received a phone call from a friend. The attic of their Toulouse home had yielded a surprising discovery: a painting, coated in dust and stained by a water leak, that looked all the same to be something of value. Labarbe approached gingerly, cleaning one of the painted faces with cotton wool and water. He sent a photo to the art appraiser Eric Turquin, based in Paris, and then he waited.
Source: Grisly masterpiece found in attic could sell for $171M (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/8H9-3I9uA64/index.html)