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Portrait Bought Online for $500 Deemed a Lost De Kooning

  • August 24, 2016 13:12
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The "Portrait of a Child" on left is thought to be by de Kooning. Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce host BBC's "Fake or Fortune?"
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On the BBC series Fake or Fortune? art expert Philip Mould helped a Belgian couple discover that a portrait they bought online for 450 euros was a lost early work by Dutch abstract artist Willem de Kooning.

The painting of a child could be worth £50,000 ($113,000), say the experts.

Since the de Kooning Foundation in the US does not authenticate works of art, Mould did his own research.

Mould said: "Fortunately the evidence that then emerged was transformative. A junk shop-type speculation can now be identified as an early work by one of the most celebrated abstract artists of the 20th century."

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