But every so often, a rare treasure is excavated. Case in point: the recent sale of a painting believed to be by Rembrandt forgotten in an attic for decades that fetched a winning bid of $1.4 million.
Wall St. Insights Some paintings go on private display after being sold.  Every painting on this list has sold for over $100 ...
The Canadian Post-Impressionist artist was famous for her evocative landscapes and paintings incorporating motifs from First ...
A painting of a wooden grizzly bear atop a totem pole recently bought at a New York barn sale for $50 is now expected to sell for $150,000 or more ...
At a barn sale in the Hamptons earlier this year, New York art dealer Allen Treibitz plucked a cool-hued painting off the wall and purchased it for $50. In the bottom right corner, a signature and ...
The art historian Abraham Bredius, the museum’s former director, bequeathed the painting to the Mauritshuis upon his death in 1946, along with two dozen other paintings by Rembrandt and other ...
When New York-based art dealer Allen Treibitz went to a barn sale in the Hamptons a few months ... Heffel said the painting was found in its original frame and stretcher, and nothing had been ...
A longtime New York-based art dealer stumbled upon a painting at a Hamptons barn sale for which he paid just ... Heffel said the artwork was found in its original frame and stretching, noting ...
The painting hung in an Italian family's home for more than 60 years. A painting found in a cellar 62 years ago may be an original Pablo ... Related: Rembrandt Painting Discovered in a Maine ...
Vincent van Gogh's Head of a Woman (Gordina de Groot) has been picked up by the Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch, the ...
When New York-based art dealer Allen Treibitz went to a barn sale in the Hamptons in New York ... Heffel said the painting was found in its original frame and stretcher, and nothing had been ...
"That painting is a piece of the Lo Rosso family of Pompeii and is not for sale. We are only looking for an evaluation, but we are not selling it, because that was my father's will, who is no ...