He Paid $30 for a Drawing. It Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions. – The New York Times

In 2016, a man picked up two items at an estate sale in Concord, Mass.: a fake jade necklace for $1 and a small drawing of the Virgin Mary and Child for $30.

He tucked the drawing away in his house, where he showed it to the occasional guest, his friend would later say. Something about it was intriguing, even though he did not know where it came from.

This month, a panel of experts at the British Museum in London delivered a stunning answer: The artwork, titled The Virgin and Child With a Flower on a Grassy Bench, was an undiscovered drawing by Albrecht Dürer, a renowned German artist born in 1471.

The man, whose identity has not been revealed, had made one of the most extraordinary discoveries of Renaissance artwork in years, the experts said. The drawing might be worth tens of millions of dollars.

via www.nytimes.com