{"id":621944,"date":"2026-10-06T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621944\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:48:10","slug":"a-50-painting-found-in-dark-corner-of-estate-sale-fetches-nz2-4m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621944\/","title":{"rendered":"A $50 painting, found in \u2018dark corner\u2019 of estate sale, fetches NZ$2.4m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The painting had been valued by Freeman\u2019s at $150,000 (NZ$267,816) to $250,000 (NZ$446,360), though bids at last Thursday\u2019s sale far surpassed estimates, setting a new auction record for Abercrombie\u2019s work. In 2025, Sotheby\u2019s sold another of Abercrombie\u2019s paintings, Message for Mercy for a then-record of $1.02 million (NZ$1.8 million), more than triple its high estimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The painting had been valued by Freeman\u2019s at $150,000 (NZ$267,816) to $250,000 (NZ$446,360), though bids at last Thursday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-621944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}