A $30 Estate Sale Find Shatters Gertrude Abercrombie’s Auction Record
A 1951 painting by Gertrude Abercrombie, purchased for $30 at a Michigan estate sale, sold for $1.35 million at Freeman’s in New York, shattering her previous auction record. The work, 'Alderman Merriam’s Shells,' was authenticated by expert Susan Weininger and had been missing for decades.