This story almost echoes back to the Jackson Pollock movie. A Sicilian man buys a painting and it turns out to be worth far more than what he originally payed for it. The difference here is that there seems to be no doubt as to the painting being an authentic Paul Gauguin still life. This article is interesting because all that the man has to do is prove that he bought this in good faith. This painting was bought along with another painting at an Italian state railway in 1975 for $100. After the autoworkers son noticed that it could be a Paul Gauguin, an expert was brought in and it was decided to likely be a Paul Gauguin still life. It was the dog in the upper right corner that tipped the son off to the possibility as Paul Gauguin usually used dogs as his signature motif. It's worth is now set between 19 to 13 million euros ($14 million to $40 million).
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