A thrifter's dream: Wendy Hawkins came across an otherwise ignored piece of art at a local thrift shop in Kitty Hawk, N.C. That item turned out to be a 1950s woodcut print created and signed by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.
Smith owns the Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head just down the street from the thrift store. She was the first person Hawkins consulted to learn more about what she'd discovered.
In all, Smith said she worked on authenticating the piece for over a week."I needed to get permission to take it out of the frame, which was old and dusty, to take a closer look because it is very rare to find something like this at a thrift store." Once Smith was convinced it was an actual Dalí original, she helped sell it. It went for $1,200 to a couple who plan to take it out of the gallery later this week. She said part of what made it so valuable is that it bears two signatures — once with a wood stamp and once in handwriting with a purple pencil.
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