Saturday, 8. March 2003
Topic: - on March 8, 2003 at 9:48:37 PM CET
City artist's £1 painting auctioned for £75,000
AN elderly woman who spent £1 on a painting by an Edinburgh artist at a household clearance sale because it would look "nice" in her kitchen has sold it for £75,250.
The owner, in her 60s, had no idea the painting hanging over her kitchen sink for the past 40 years was a work by Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell.
She had bought it in the 1960s when a neighbour in Co Wicklow, Ireland, died. She said she liked to look at it while she washed up.
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