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Steve and Beth Feeback with their second-hand Ilya Bolotowsky painting 'Vertical Diamond'((c) Beth Feeback)

$9.99 painting from Goodwill sells for 27K at auction

9/25/2012

Beth Feeback is an artist with a very specific focus — she paints portraits of cats. In April, the North Carolina woman bought a painting for $9.99 at a Goodwill store. The painting — “Vertical Diamond” by Ilya Bolotowsky — didn’t  do much for Feeback, and she planned to reuse the canvas for one of her feline portraits. But a friend advised her to research the work before painting over it. Great advice: through her online queries, Feeback discovered the painting was way too valuable to paint cats over it. Last Friday, the painting sold at auction for $27,000. [Source]

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