We went to see this documentary with Neil and Donna last night at Pacific Cinematheque and we all really enjoyed it...preceded by a super dinner at Earle's. We hadn't been to an Earle's for years.
Got me thinking about doing a painting of these wonderful pines you find in the south of France. I have loads of photos of them and have done some paintings with pines.
Coincidentally, just before we left we saw this story on the 5pm news:
From GlobalTV:
Last January the man walked into Maynards in Vancouver with two paintings in a dirty shopping bag, looking for an appraisal. He had bought both of the pieces for $50 each at an East Vancouver garage sale.
At first, the appraiser didn’t even think to take one of the paintings out of the bag, thinking it wasn’t worth anything.
But another staff member had a hunch and discovered that the painting was actually a piece of Canadian art history, a previously unknown work by Tom Thomson.
Thomson is best-known for inspiring the legendary Group of Seven artists.
A two-month long authentication process discovered that it was likely painted in 1915.
The last Thomson sold at Maynards went for $170,000 and the auction house says this latest find could go for even more, maybe even half-a-million dollars.
The second painting that the man brought in was a watercolour by Frederick Horsman Varley, and is worth approximently $4,000 – $6,000.
