Baroque painting found in flea market sofa

A Berlin college student apparently had the ultimate thrift-score. Turns out that a beat-up old sofa bed she bought at a flea market for 150 euros (US$216) had a baroque painting tucked in the mattress. The painting sold at auction this week for 19,200 euros (US$27,660.) From Reuters:

"She used the sofa bed for a while before realizing the painting was in there," said Michaela Derra, spokeswoman for the auction house Ketterer Kunst, adding she did not know how the oil painting had wound up inside the sofa.

Link (Thanks, Lindsay Tiemeyer!)

Previously on BB:
• $1 million painting found in trash Link

[#1 posted by gabrielm , November 1, 2007 4:29 PM]

I love how Yahoo! other news organizations pull the most extreme photos that they can find. I took one look at the ripped, soiled "couch" in the article and was about the cite shenanigans.

"No one would pay US$216 for that!"

Then I noticed the small AP file credit.

[#2 posted by bluepez , November 1, 2007 5:38 PM]

Why do they so rarely include relevant pictures with stories like this? I was expecting a picture of the painting, and instead there's this couch picture.

[#3 posted by june , November 1, 2007 5:40 PM]

That was my reaction, too. "She paid $216 for that?! She got hosed, it looks like hobos were using it for a toilet." Stupid Yahoo.

I would also like to see what the painting looked like.

[#4 posted by schönberger , November 1, 2007 6:48 PM]

This is the picture:
http://www.kettererkunst.de/kunst/kd/details.php?obnr=410705052&anummer=326

[#5 posted by Dave X , November 1, 2007 8:14 PM]

A Baroque painting? *yawn* I scored a free, working jukebox: http://startlingmoniker.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/mahnewfavoritething/

[#6 posted by midgetpoker , November 2, 2007 3:17 AM]

On a matter of pedantry, the plural of euro is euro and not euroS. In the same way, the plural of sheep is sheep and lego is lego.