The Saga Of The Thrift-Store Wyeth Ends Happily
about 10 months ago (12/17/2023)
That $4 Thrift Shop Painting Finally Does Sell for Big Bucks - The New York Times Arts | That $4 Thrift Shop Painting Finally Does Sell for Big Bucks https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/arts/nc-wyeth-sale-thrift-shop.html Share full article Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The saga of the $4 thrift shop painting has a happy ending after all. On Thursday, the rare N. C. Wyeth illustration that Tracy Donahue found years ago for a bargain at a Savers was handed over to a representative of Heritage Auctions at a public library in Keene, N. H. The representative, Aviva Lehmann, had read an article in The New York Times about how Ms. Donahue and her husband, Tom, had been disappointed to learn that the bidder who agreed to pay $191,000 at an auction in September then failed to cough up the cash. “I had a visceral reaction,” Ms. Lehmann said.