Victor Wiener, an independent art appraiser, remembers a housekeeper who tried to "dry off" a rain-spattered multimillion-dollar canvas with a cleaning rag and smeared the image in the process.
It's also fun to watch the confused auction house employees as they puzzle over whether a shoddily dressed man is penniless or the owner of a Warhol that he bought for a few hundred dollars when the canvas was still wet.
This gives promise of developing a market for millions of dollars worth of canvas, duck, and metal or wood supports.
If these are a bit high-priced, Target has good options for about 20 or 30 dollars. 1 canvas tote bag.
To help capture Washington's likeness, Mr. Kunstler taped a dollar bill to the canvas, and also kept a gift-shop statue of Washington nearby, as well as, yes, a copy of the Leutze painting.
In late December, three men broke into the São Paulo Museum of Art and made off with two paintings: a Picasso Blue Period portrait worth fifty million dollars and a 1939 canvas by the Brazilian realist Candido Portinari with an estimated value of five to six million.
Mr. Tuttle had been argumentative from the beginning: about the fee — twelve dollars — the size of the canvas, and the prospect to be shown through the window.
Back in the fifties, he had bought a Rauschenberg canvas for seventeen dollars, because that was what he had in his pocket at the time.
The company says one in every 20 American homes has a Kinkade work displayed, at prices ranging from a few dollars to $10,000 for limited-edition canvas lithographs.
By Julian Barnes Mr. Tuttle had been argumentative from the beginning: about the fee — twelve dollars — the size of the canvas, and the prospect to be shown through the window.
