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Student finds art treasure in old couch
Posted Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:12am AEDT
A Berlin student who bought a second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been sitting on a small fortune when she found a 17th century baroque painting hidden inside the couch.
The artwork fetched 19,200 euros ($30,169) at auction in Hamburg.
The student had paid 150 euros for the couch last year and got about 16,000 euros from the sale of the painting.
"She used the sofa bed for a while before realising the painting was in there," said Michaela Derra, spokeswoman for auction house Ketterer Kunst.
Ms Derra said she did not know how the oil painting had wound up inside the sofa.
Experts believe the work, entitled Preparations for the flight to Egypt, was painted between 1605 and 1610 by an unknown artist with ties to Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/31/2076602.htm?section=entertainment
kenb
Posted Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:12am AEDT
A Berlin student who bought a second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been sitting on a small fortune when she found a 17th century baroque painting hidden inside the couch.
The artwork fetched 19,200 euros ($30,169) at auction in Hamburg.
The student had paid 150 euros for the couch last year and got about 16,000 euros from the sale of the painting.
"She used the sofa bed for a while before realising the painting was in there," said Michaela Derra, spokeswoman for auction house Ketterer Kunst.
Ms Derra said she did not know how the oil painting had wound up inside the sofa.
Experts believe the work, entitled Preparations for the flight to Egypt, was painted between 1605 and 1610 by an unknown artist with ties to Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/31/2076602.htm?section=entertainment
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