“Cheap painting is really a classic!”
A Texas man said a painting he bought for $125 at a thrift store is being donated to a museum after it was found to be a work by famed Georgia artist Keith Bankston.
William Pugh, a university professor, said the painting caught his eye during a recent trip to a thrift store.
Pugh said he suspected the $125 painting, which depicts Eve and the serpent in the Garden of Eden, might be an original, so he did some research to find out more about the piece and its artist.
The painting turned out to be Eve in the Rose Garden, a 1982 work by Georgia artist Keith Bankston, who died at the age of only 34 in 1992.
Pugh decided to donate the painting to the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Ga., after learning the facility had several of Bankston’s other works on display.
The museum has not yet determined the painting’s value, but it could be worth as much as $100,000.
คำศัพท์
painting = ภาพวาด
artist = ศิลปิน
famed = มีชื่อเสียง
work (n.)= ผลงาน
museum = พิพิธภัณฑ์
donate = บริจาค
thrift store = ร้านขายของมือสอง
