Aunt Reveals A Secret Painting Hiding Under Sewing Machine
Carl Sabatino's aunt tells him a secret that he wasn't aware of. As a child he noticed a painting in his aunt's home, dubbing it "the woman in the fuzzy hat." He didn't know that his aunt plans to pass it to him when she passed away and this particular painting could get up to $30 million.
Sabatino’s aunt, Jenny Verastro, hinted at the painting’s value just before she died. “Three days before she passed on, she told me, ‘Don’t forget, Carl, to look under the sewing machine,’” he recalled.
He didn't care that much of the painting because he already saw it many times throughout his childhood. He found it under the sewing machine, wrapped in newspaper dating back to the 1950's.
Now Sabatino believes the painting is made by the master himself- Pablo Picasso based on the signature located in the upper left corner. Verastro’s husband purchased the painting for the equivalent of $10 from a street vendor in London during World War II.
An expert almost immediately dismissed Sabatino’s painting as a fake, but Carl argued the piece is legit.
“I said, ‘Okay, but where did it come from, in your opinion? It’s in color,’ which was very rare at the time,” he said, but she “didn’t have an answer.”
Sabatino has also discovered that Picasso tinkered with a particular color printing technique in 1936, and believes his painting could have resulted from that experimental period.
With the help of a second expert, the legitimacy of the painting was confirmed. The expert extracted some pigment from the painting and said it matched the materials used in Europe in the 1930s. Even more, telling was the discovery of a partial thumbprint embedded in the paint, which could only have been left by the painter himself.
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