Sotheby's Van Gogh sale -

In 1968, a London buyer paid £45 for a painting in a junk shop because he suspected it might be special; experts later confirmed it as a Van Gogh, and in 2020 the work sold for about €12 million to €15 million

The painting, created in July 1885, is known in French as Paysanne devant une chaumière. Simon C. Dickinson photo A painting bought for just £45 from a London junk shop…