A Berlin student who bought a second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been sitting on a small fortune when she found a baroque painting hidden inside the couch.
The artwork fetched 19,200 euros ($27,660) in Hamburg after the student discovered it stashed between the folding sections of the couch she had paid 150 euros for last year, the auctioneers said Tuesday.
“She used the sofa bed for a while before realizing the painting was in there,” said Michaela Derra, spokeswoman for the auction house Ketterer Kunst, adding she did not know how the oil painting had wound up inside the sofa.
Now, she can buy a new sofa bed. And a Volkswagen.
So that’s where I left that painting.
Good thing he didnt sit down too hard on his couch. other wise he woulda broke his baroque….
If this was like most lottery winners, she would have bought another couch each week hoping to hit it big again.
“Why does this painting smell like beer and pee?”