Fifty years ago, restaurant owners Irene and John Demas traded a grilled cheese for a painting. Last month, it sold for $272,548.
Nothing was a tit for tat. They simply offered and took and, eventually, one day, Kinnear came in with a set of paintings that weren’t his own to trade. Demas remembers that Kinnear told the story of the artist he’d met who had limited mobility and was of simple means. He set up six artworks from different artists around chairs and against glassware and presented them to Demas and her husband.
But one of the paintings stopped Demas in her tracks."There was one special painting that really jumped out at me that was very bright, and it was a little black truck. All the other ones I didn’t care for had about two or three different versions of cats … I was pregnant at that time. And , 'Well, if it’s a boy, we can hang it in in his room' … it turns out I picked the right one.
Lewis, a folk artist from Nova Scotia who’d never achieved any financial success for her art, became a topic of interest in the early aughts. Then, as Demas recalls, someone found a Lewis painting at a Goodwill store that went up for auction and sold for $45,000.
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