Lichtenstein Painting Originally Purchased for $27.50, Sells for $128,700 at Quinn’s

FALLS CHURCH, VA.- A 1951 painting by Roy Lichtenstein purchased for $27.50 and kept out of the public eye for nearly 50 years sold for $128,700 on Dec. 4 at Quinn’s Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia. Titled The Statesman, the 18 by 28 inch oil-on-canvas portrait was consigned by D.C.-area resident Enid Liess, a retired schoolteacher who, as a young girl had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. It was there that she learned how to identify quality [...]