November 8, 2024

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Mihail Simeonov: Pleasant Surprises

Sunday Morning Series by Simeonov

I admit it; I hit the art racks at resale shops when I get a chance. Remember the guy in 2003 who bought a painting of workers in a field at a flea market that turned out to be by Vincent van Gogh, it sold for $3.6 million? What about the woman last year in West Virginia who launched a firestorm of controversy when she found a Pierre-Auguste Renoir at a flea market for $7? Last week I stumbled across a small piece at Goodwill signed “Mihail”.   The pastel on paper was in a cheap looking frame but I could …continue reading