{"id":622829,"date":"2026-06-05T15:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622829\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:04:08","slug":"painting-bought-for-100-in-us-charity-shop-sells-for-190000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/622829\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting bought for $100 in US charity shop sells for \u00a3190,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Helene, who is now 88 and lives in Florida, said the painting stood out when she first spotted it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My background in art history and studio practice drew me to this piece instantly,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The painting had an undeniable, regal presence, but it was the colour theory at play that held my attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The way the pastels were integrated into the composition was both interesting and bold \u2013 it was clearly the work of a significant hand with a deep understanding of light and form.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barry said the family were amazed to find out who the artist was having grown up with picture on the wall. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;We were, as you can imagine, delighted and astounded when we found out the identity of the artist and of the model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For mum, it was confirmation of her artistic eye and ability to recognise great talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helene, who is now 88 and lives in Florida, said the painting stood out when she first spotted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-622829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}