Discovery: $900 painting at Kentucky antiques shop somewhat undervalued
- October 29, 2009 15:33
Dr. Jim Huffman waffled whether to put down $900 for a painting he liked at a Lexington, Kentucky, antique store. The ophthalmologist finally bought it and then sent the work to an art restorer. A cleaning revealed the artist's signature: Robert Scott Duncanson, a noted 19th-century artist who was the first African-American painter to gain international recognition. Now valued at about $100,000, the work is on loan to the Speed Art Museum.
_-Closing-the-Distance_100x100_c.jpg "Lot 204: Bob Kuhn (1920–2007),Closing the Distance, 1977, acrylic on masonite, 24 x 48 in, Sold: $409,500")
