Man buys a small painting for $46, turns out it's worth $390,000

[pr00ch]

[QUOTE=daijitsu;42143571]I'd sell it to the highest bidding museum[/QUOTE]

Yeah, honestly I would too. What he did is noble and all but damn dosh sure is nice.

[EmperorScorpious]

Art collectors have one sole job: Keeping their collection safe until the next collector gets it.

Whether they make money on it along the way is morally irrelevant.

[TorrentR]

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;42142741]I'd rather be remembered as an "art donating hero" than "that chucklefuck who sold priceless art for profit"[/QUOTE]
Come on, it's just a postcard-sized painting, not the cure for HIV or Huntington's Disease. Or pretty much anything else that could actually help people.

[Sally]

The frame is pretty crappy.

[dai]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;42144950]Art collectors have one sole job: Keeping their collection safe until the next collector gets it.

Whether they make money on it along the way is morally irrelevant.[/QUOTE]

he's not a collector though, his dad bought a box of crap at a sale and after recieving some of that junk, he found out the painting was actually valuable

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE=daijitsu;42145525]he's not a collector though, his dad bought a box of crap at a sale and after recieving some of that junk, he found out the painting was actually valuable[/QUOTE]

Technicalities.

[dai]

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;42145629]Technicalities.[/QUOTE]

average schmuck in posession of a thing =/= caretaker

by these standards though it should be warranted that a collector collects it from him

[Curls]

that dudes smile is fucking awesome :v: