The drawing he bought for 30 dollars, the million-dollar Albrecht Durer painting is out
The painting, which a person bought for $ 30 in a real estate sale in the USA, turned out to be a Renaissance work worth millions of dollars. Experts think that the painting “The Virgin Mary and Her Child” belongs to the famous German painter Albrecht Durer.
In 2016, a person in Concord, Massachusetts, bought a fake necklace for $1 and a small drawing of ‘The Virgin Mary and Child’ for $30 at an estate sale.
According to the news of Euronews; In the panel of experts at the British Museum in London, it was stated that the work was a Dürer work made in 1471.
It is stated that the drawing, which has been described as “one of the most extraordinary discoveries” of Renaissance art in recent years, could be worth tens of millions of dollars.
According to the New York Times, it was revealed that the drawing was Dürer’s work, as a result of the efforts of an art dealer. Clifford Schorer, an entrepreneur from Boston, said he paid this person a $100,000 advance to sell the drawing after seeing the work in 2019.
He visited 14 cities to ask the experts about the work
Schorer went to 14 cities around the world and sought expert opinion to investigate whether the artifact was fake.
Schorer showed the drawing to Jane McAusland, a consultant to museums, dealers and auction houses in England.
McAusland said that the drawing was first stained with tea or coffee to make it look antique; however, at the end of her research, she decided that the ‘trident watermark’ found only in Albrecht Dürer’s drawings.
Only Dürer’s workshop had access to this paper, bearing Fugger’s signature watermark, according to Christof Metzger, Dürer expert on the panel of experts who validated the drawing.
Metzger, chief curator of the Albertina Museum in Vienna, also noted that clues such as paper, pencil strokes and the Virgin Mary style show that the work is not fake.
Saying that only 24 Dürer works remain in private collections, Metzger said, “This is what makes the newly discovered drawing so special.”
