Apparently someone found a Van Gogh painting at my thrift...

[Spartcom5]

Was looking at the watches while at my local thrift. A store employee came running up to the guy helping me and said some guy just found a Van Gogh painting and he said it was worth 70 million dollars!!!!!!!! LOL it's hard to believe but I guess it could be true. I went over to the paintings and this guy dressed super nice was all excited showing everyone this painting he had and was bragging about it being millions of dollars. I wanted to get you guys a picture but he was running all around the place. He bought it then ran out to his car and booked it out. Seems odd to me, why would he tell all these people he had a 70 million dollar painting in his hands? Seems like a nice way to get mugged in the parking lot, especially in the area we were in. What are the odds it was actually real? I am not bummed out because if real I would have never found it since I don't do paintings. If you see on the news a Van Gogh painting was recently discovered at a thrift store you heard it here first hahah sure was exciting to see the thrift store in an absolute frenzy!

Edit: It was $5.50

 

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[JimDon]

Van Gogh did not sell any paintings in his lifetime. All Van Gogh paintings are well documented and I believe only a few missing which are believed to be destroyed during WWII or stolen. Possible yes but of all artists the least likely to find a missing piece of artwork.

 

[trdhrdr007]

If he was bragging about it while still standing in the painting section instead of after paying that means he's too stupid to know a real from a fake.

 

[Tpmetal]

yup probably a print or repo, very very very unlikely

 

[tamrock]

My mother hung this Van Gogh Sun flowers on the wall in the 1960s. Now I've no clue what ever happened to it Once doing work in West Texas I did stop by the gallery of this artist in Van Horn who painted his own Van Gogh's.

 

[Drmad7]

He was probably doing what that guy did when the lottery was over half a billion dollars...just pretended to win and ran out. Then the winner turned out to be someone else. But it will be great for him if it is true, but bad for us because that will have folks flooding thrift stores again looking for treasures. And my local stores have already started getting really stingy with any oil painting that looks old! My last oil purchase was his one that I got for $50...sold it for almost $900.

 

[Kookiemonsta]

He was probably doing what that guy did when the lottery was over half a billion dollars...just pretended to win and ran out. Then the winner turned out to be someone else. But it will be great for him if it is true, but bad for us because that will have folks flooding thrift stores again looking for treasures. And my local stores have already started getting really stingy with any oil painting that looks old! My last oil purchase was his one that I got for $50...sold it for almost $900. View attachment 1498862

Haha, score! But... who in the WORLD would want that photo?!?! I wonder where that thing is hanging now haha

 

[trdking]

Haha, score! But... who in the WORLD would want that photo?!?! I wonder where that thing is hanging now haha

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[trdking]

I think he was hired by the Thrift store to sell their overstock of used paintings.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Great, now the thrift stores are going to start charging way more for any other Van Goghs that they find.
Some people can just ruin it for everyone!
Carl

 

[Lost&Found]

Anybody want to buy a bridge. You can put a toll booth on it and make your money back in less than a year. It's between Brooklyn and Manhattan.

How could he even value it. If it were to br an unknown or missing work it would be years before it could be sold due to experts evaluations. A few years ago on EBay someone was trying to sell an "unknown Van Gogh of fishes" for a crazy amount of money.

 

[AlienLifeForm]

Sounds like you might have run into a nut-job. I've met a few in my travels, and thrift stores and the like seem to have their fair share of them.

 

[JohnWhite]

If my memory serves me correctly I believe that there was someone on this site a few years ago that was claiming to have found a Renoir I believe at a thrift store...I wonder what ever came of thatlol

 

[JimDon]

If my memory serves me correctly I believe that there was someone on this site a few years ago that was claiming to have found a Renoir I believe at a thrift store...I wonder what ever came of thatlol

That is far more likely but still remote.

 

[Paleo_joe]

If someone found one, what reason at all would they have to let anyone know?