{
  "id": 14517263,
  "title": "London buyer paid £45 for junk-shop painting; it later sold for up to $15m",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/london-buyer-paid-45-for-junk-shop-painting-it-later-sold-for-up-to",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-14T18:20:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/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/articleshow/134915639.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A painting bought for just £45 from a London junk shop in 1968 was later authenticated as an original Vincent van Gogh. The artwork, which had previously sold for only £4 at a farm sale in 1967, changed hands several times before being sold to a private collector for approximately €12 million to €15 million in 2020.",
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  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}