Shoppers in New Mexico missed quite a bargain last week. The Trinidad Times Independent reports that a charcoal drawing on sale for $250 at an antique shop in town was actually a Vincent van Gogh sketch that could be worth anywhere from $250,000 to $1 million.
Santa Fe police arrived on the scene after being informed that works from a May 13 burglary in Santa Fe may have made there way into the shop. They found a van Gogh charcoal drawing that is owner says was used as a preliminary sketch for his painting Night Café (1888). The FBIs art theft task force was also involved in the recovery effort. A spokesman for the group, Stephen Marshall, said, "I think it was pretty clear that whoever sold it [to the shop] didn't know what they had." The investigation into the burglary is ongoing.
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