Is Your Art Collection Worth More than $600,000?

The San Francisco Examiner recently reported on a California woman who decided to sell the painting over her piano.

"All the seller had hoped for was a couple thousand dollars to help pay for her daughter's tuition at UC Berkeley," says the paper.

But "on Super Bowl Sunday, someone gambled more than half a million dollars at an Oakland auction that the painting is the lost work of a 17th-century Italian master."

The painting is untitled and unsigned. No one knows for a fact who painted it or when. But it appears to be the work of a 17th-century Italian artist named Pier Francesco Mola. It was sold to an unnamed art dealer in the New York area.

You can read the entire story here.

Here's to hoping that fien art photographs will be so avidly sought in the future...