The couple from New Gampshire was broken by grief when the sale of rare work of NK. Wyeta they found broke. But a new buyer appeared, who paid over $ 100,000. A saga about a picture from a commission store worth 4 dollars eventually has a happy ending.
On Thursday, the rare illustration of NK Wyeta, which Tracy Donnawya found many years ago at a favorable price in the commission store was handed over to the Heritage Auctions representative in a public library at a cinema, New Hampshire.
Aviva Lemann read an article in The New York Times about how Donna and her husband, Tom, were disappointed when they found out that the buyer who agreed to pay $ 191,000 at the auction in September and was unable to split this money.
"I had an internal reaction," Ms. Lemann said.
She decided to sell the picture, referred to a specific private collector and had already completed the agreement once at 3 am, when the same collector, unexpectedly for her, sent her a message.
The collector also read about the picture and wanted to buy it.
"Fate," said Lemann.
On Thursday, Donawy went from their home in New Hampshire to the library and met Lemann, who came from New York. The picture went one way. A receipt for a bank transfer of money to Donnae account - to another.
All this made Donau ask a man: "Can we afford to go for lunch?"
At the Barbecue Restaurant, as if someone bit the old heel, Donna checked the bank application on his phone to ensure that the money was received.
"Tom has shown me four times," Ms. Donna said.
No one says who was the buyer and how much he paid. But Lemann said, "This is a six -digit amount."
For a month, after they learned that the huge picture they once kept in the closet is of value, Donny dreamed of using funds from its sale to pay the bills and visit their son in Germany. He was their first call on Thursday. "Start planning," Donaua said. “We're going!”
Donnawa said that in their future a new dishwasher may appear, as well as something that can be "inherited" during the vacation season.
Ms. Donnau admitted that she was a little sorry to part with Ramon-an illustration-frontisis, which was part of a set of four images created by Wyet for the same novel Hanh Hunt Jackson in 1939.
But she said that Ms. Lemann promised to make her a life -size reproduction after the "legacy" cleans and restores it. Mrs. Donnau plans to make a reproduction to the frame so that it looks like the original.
"This is a wonderful completion of all this," she said. "I can still enjoy the picture."
