Ansel Adams
Finding a good news story is more challenging than I thought it would be. They exist, but it takes time to find them. But here’s one, from NPR. Ten years ago, Rick Norsigian, a building painter in Fresno, California, bought a batch of negatives at a garage sale for $45. It turns out the negatives were taken by Ansel Adams and are worth about $200 million.
But this story also has a down side. Ansel’s grandson and the Adams dams’ grandson and the Ansel Adams Trust are disputing the claim.
Like I said, finding these good news stories is challenging! However, on the right-hand side of the screen is a link for happy news stories!
i heard about this little jewel, too – and remembered a purchase i made at an estate sell many many moons ago – the estate was that of an old louisiana family member – and the item i bought was a very old painting about 10"x14" – long story short is that while i kept the painting for years and years at some point i later gave it as a gift to someone – now, the bottom line is that while i will never know for sure, i would swear it was a maxfield parrish –
anyway, neat post with good news!!! 🙂
Good news for him! I was wondering about the guy who sold them to him……..whoops! 🙂
tell ya about July 7, 2007 and Yosemite,, well yeah and yeah a picutre is worth a thousand words,, personally got about 5 in a million,, but $200 million for black and white…Hummm
w.v. styla
This story was in the UK press as well – an amazing purchase! I love going to car boot (trunk?) sales and flea markets looking for interesting things – you never know what can be found. Though have never been this lucky – yet!