Thrift Store Wood Engraving Print Turns Out To Be Salvador Dalí Artwork
"It's pretty much the thrift store dream; to find a rare, long lost treasure on a
crowded tchotchke shelf, on sale for a bargain price."
"That's what happened at the Hotline Pink Thrift Shop in Kitty Hawk, N.C., when Wendy Hawkins came across an otherwise ignored piece of art."
"'One day I saw this, with a bunch of other paintings lined up on the floor, and I said 'this is old, this is something special,' ' Hawkins, who volunteers at the store twice a week, told WAVY TV."
"It was priced somewhere between $10 to $50 dollars."
"The item turned out to be a 1950s woodcut print that was created and signed by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí. It is part of a series of 100 illustrations depicting Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, a 14th century Italian poem about the writer's fictional journey from the deepest circles of hell, up the mountain of purgatory and finally to paradise."