Painting That Sold In 1958 For $60 Rediscovered As A da Vinci

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Da Vinci painted the image of Jesus Christ at about the same time as the "Mona Lisa" (Which I had the pleasure of seeing on my ISIS fighting vacation in Paris this past May) -- around 1500. It adorned the walls of royal palaces before disappearing towards the end of the 18th century. By the time the painting resurfaced in 1900, its origins had been forgotten.

The masterpiece sold at a Christie's auction for $60 in 1958, before finally being identified as da Vinci's work in 2011.

It's only one of less than 20 known da Vinci paintings and is the only one known to be in a private collection.

The masterpiece is scheduled to go to auction where it will go for an estimated $100M.


I love how we're still discovering stuff like this. New masterpieces, new Egyptian tombs...just this year.
 
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Beautiful painting. It needs to be restored ASAP.

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It's funny to me because whenever I am at garage sales or estate sales I always judge things like this. I bet there are so many gems that just end up in land fills because people didn't know they had an original Abraham Lincoln painting (I remember someone bought one at a flea market for 5 bucks that was worth 3 million at the time) I have an old oil painting, a still of flowers, that is signed J London I always joke with my wife that it's my Jack London painting.

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Burque said:
It's funny to me because whenever I am at garage sales or estate sales I always judge things like this. I bet there are so many gems that just end up in land fills because people didn't know they had an original Abraham Lincoln painting (I remember someone bought one at a flea market for 5 bucks that was worth 3 million at the time) I have an old oil painting, a still of flowers, that is signed J London I always joke with my wife that it's my Jack London painting.

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I will never understand how that would be something you would consider or expect others to consider to be a "joke" because the only thing "funny" about it, and by funny I mean "peculiar" or mind-bottling, is that you would think that Jack London was a painter, when in fact he was not known for that at all, by anyone, because he was a writer who literally wrote books about sled dogs or wolfs and other stuff that happens in Alaska and the North Pole, and even if he was a painter he would not paint things like flowers just sitting there in a vase he would likely paint pictures of bears getting attacked by wolfs or blizzards literally burying log cabins in the wilderness, or dogs running through snow and over mountains. So it's probably not a real Jack London painting and joke is on you, you paid too much for it and literally nobody is going to really believe you.
 
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I will never understand how that would be something you would consider or expect others to consider to be a "joke" because the only thing "funny" about it, and by funny I mean "peculiar" or mind-bottling, is that you would think that Jack London was a painter, when in fact he was not known for that at all, by anyone, because he was a writer who literally wrote books about sled dogs or wolfs and other stuff that happens in Alaska and the North Pole, and even if he was a painter he would not paint things like flowers just sitting there in a vase he would likely paint pictures of bears getting attacked by wolfs or blizzards literally burying log cabins in the wilderness, or dogs running through snow and over mountains. So it's probably not a real Jack London painting and joke is on you, you paid too much for it and literally nobody is going to really believe you.
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VashalasX said:
I will never understand how that would be something you would consider or expect others to consider to be a "joke" because the only thing "funny" about it, and by funny I mean "peculiar" or mind-bottling, is that you would think that Jack London was a painter, when in fact he was not known for that at all, by anyone, because he was a writer who literally wrote books about sled dogs or wolfs and other stuff that happens in Alaska and the North Pole, and even if he was a painter he would not paint things like flowers just sitting there in a vase he would likely paint pictures of bears getting attacked by wolfs or blizzards literally burying log cabins in the wilderness, or dogs running through snow and over mountains. So it's probably not a real Jack London painting and joke is on you, you paid too much for it and literally nobody is going to really believe you.
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Well, I guess the joke wasn't that funny after all.
 

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painted by bob ross in the 80s..

its a good rich ppl scam.. long game stuff..
 

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That's some next level rich I can't even fathom.

I don't want anyone to know who I am to protect my 400 million dollar painting for the next 10 generations.
 
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