For Texan ray Riley (Ray Riley) next purchase at your favorite thrift store, second-hand, it seems, was the lucky ticket to a new life. A resident of Houston believes that the work which he bought for $ 90, is actually a true work of renowned German artist Sigmar Polke. The work of this author in recent years greatly increased in price, especially against the background of a retrospective at MOMA last year and a new auction record of 27.1 million dollars in may of this year (before this record for works Polke were $ 9.2 million at auction in 2011).

Work in question, were sold in the Guild store store, thrift store, donating the proceeds to partially or entirely to charity) in Houston during the 104 days until mid-may of this year she bought one of the regular customers, ray Riley. When Riley took out the piece from the frame, discovered hiding under frame signed "S Polke".

"I was very nervous, I was shaking. In the end, a couple of weeks I hid work", — said the possible lucky in an interview with ABC News. Riley began to examine the work of Sigmar Polke and now convinced that he belongs to a genuine work by the German artist. If the authorship Polke is confirmed, work can be estimated in the range from 2 to 7 million dollarov@

"we have works of art, and, obviously, we may not know that some of them can cost millions," commented Executive Director of the store Gae Jaxon@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artnet.com, artinvestment.ru