For you mongoers out there, keep this in mind...
One Person’s Trash Is Another Person’s Lost Masterpiece.
It’s hardly a place you would expect to find a $1 million painting.
But one March morning four years ago, Elizabeth Gibson was on her way to get coffee, as usual, when she spotted a large and colorful abstract canvas nestled between two big garbage bags in front of the Alexandria, an apartment building on the northwest corner of Broadway and 72nd Street in Manhattan.
“I had a real debate with myself,” said Ms. Gibson, a writer and self-professed Dumpster diver. “I almost left it there because it was so big, and I kept thinking to myself, ‘Why are you taking this back to your crammed apartment?’”
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WOW, that is quite a story! I find it odd though that the woman took so long to examine the actual painting and find all the gallery stickers on the back. Then again she did say she wasn't an art aficionado...but still, to think that the painting was 20 minutes away from being thrown away and hauled off to a landfill where it would probably never be seen again is incredible!
Posted by Kelly Rangel | October 28, 2007 12:11 AM
Posted on October 28, 2007 00:11