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saw that on CNN. It'll sell for more than 250,000 thou.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1446436.html?menu=£50 picture saves the day
A Californian man who fled his wrecked home with nothing but a 50 picture has found it's a £300,000 masterpiece.
Albert Trevino, 74, would have been left with nothing as insurers refused to pay up after a landslide wrecked his home in Bluebird Canyon.
He was given 15 minutes to gather his belongings before his house slipped 40ft down a hillside, reports the Mirror.
All Albert could salvage was his passport, some do ents and his mother's favourite picture - a painting he bought from a garage sale for £50 more than 25 years ago.
Called Evening Shadows it shows the mission of San Juan Capistrano and was painted in 1923 by Joseph Kleitsch, a key member of the California Impressionism movement
Its iden y was only revealed after Albert's artist friend Pam Hagen saw a signature on the work.
Now a gallery has agreed to sell it for Albert and wife Dolores, 69, commission-free.
He said: "When the emergency services came they would not let us back in our homes without supervision. I got the painting because it was in the room it was safest to go into."
Art expert Ray Redfern said: "A Kleitsch sold recently for more than £200,000. This one will go for more."
saw that on CNN. It'll sell for more than 250,000 thou.
This must be an UK article. Amounts are in pounds stirling, so £300,000=$540,000 USD.
I don't think he's so lucky that his house got swept away!
I think he'll survive with $300,000
Again, that was in pounds, and houses are expensive in California.
It was actually in Laguna Beach. They've got lots of homes that are built on stilts there and have had numerous mud slides before.
Great little town, though. Gay ABC would especially love it
Dude, 500K gets you a one bedroom efficiency condo in Cali
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