Think about discovering a priceless murals for below $20. That’s the hope for a Pennsylvania vintage store proprietor who stated a drawing she purchased for $12 at an public sale might presumably be the work of a legendary artist.
Heidi Markow, the proprietor of Salvage Items in Easton instructed NBC10 she made a routine journey to an public sale in Montgomery County again in January 2025 to search for objects for her enterprise.
“There were paintings that were going for $1,000, $2,000, $3,000 as they moved down the line,” she instructed NBC10. “And this was just sitting there.”
Markow purchased a drawing for under $12. It wasn’t till she took a better look nevertheless that she observed a faint signature: Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir was a French artist and painter born in 1841 who was recognized for his Impressionist paintings.
“It can go for six figures, seven figures, I don’t know,” Markow instructed NBC10.
Though the drawing hasn’t been appraised, Markow believes it may very well be a Renoir work from the Nineteen Twenties. The writing on the again of the drawing suggests a Philadelphia artwork collector who donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork as soon as owned it.
So is it the true deal? Markow will discover out subsequent month when she takes the drawing to the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.
“I don’t think it’s quite hit me yet,” Markow stated. “Today, I just said, ‘Wow. These are the kind of things you read about it. It’s happening here.’”
