# @pubity on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeOIjuVPKO2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71355117-pubity-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/a6a275b505.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T05:00:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Pubity (@PubityIG) — https://gondola.cc/PubityIG

## Caption

A painting bought for $30 at a Michigan estate sale just sold for $1.35 million.

A picker spotted Gertrude Abercrombie’s 1951 work “Alderman Merriam’s Shells” in a hallway while hunting for albums and midcentury furniture. Freeman’s had estimated it at $150,000 to $200,000, and it sold for a record price for the artist.

Abercrombie, a Chicago painter who had only a local cult following in her lifetime, reportedly traded the 8 by 11 inch piece to her doctor in exchange for surgery. Her paintings were still turning up in thrift stores into the early 2000s.

#hosted #pubity #viral

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