A man who bought a Picasso poster at a thrift store sold it for a lot of money! Click below to read how much he sold it for.
An Ohio man who unwittingly bought a signed Picasso poster at a thrift store has scored a surreal return on his investment.
Zachary Bodish, who paid $14.14 for the poster only to discover he had purchased an original piece signed by the co-founder of the Cubist movement, sold the print for $7,000 last month to a private buyer who prefers to remain anonymous.
“A pretty darn good return,†Bodish told the Associated Press. “Can’t get that at the bank.â€
Bodish, 46, who worked at an arts center before being laid off from his job a few years ago, stumbled upon the poster while shopping at a Volunteers of America thrift store about nine miles north of Columbus, Ohio.
Though the placard advertised a 1958 exhibition of ceramic works by Picasso, Bodish said he figured it was simply a good quality reproduction until he started looking up information about the exhibition’s history and realized some red marks on the poster’s corner might be the Spanish master’s signature.
“I started shaking a little bit,” Bodish told the Columbus Dispatch, which reported that Bodish authenticated the print with art experts before deciding to sell it privately .
Following news reports of the discovery, Ed Zettler, 72, a retired English teacher from Columbus, stepped foward to say the poster sat in his home for years until he decided to donate it to the thirft store where Bodish found it.
“I gave it away. Someone else found it. He fortunately saw more. It’s his,†Zettler told the Associated Press. “That’s the risk you take when you bring something to the thrift store.â€
