Article: A picture's worth ... a million dollars!(STRANGE BUT TRUE)(Brief article)

For more than 50 years, a painting depicting Afghan tribesmen hung largely unnoticed in a school auditorium. That was until it caught the eye of a man attending an event at the North Attleborough, Mass., school. His research revealed that the artist, Alexandre Iacovleff, was a famous Russian painter, and his work was highly prized. The painting, Afghans, was worth $3,500 in 1951 when William Charles Thompson donated it to the school to be ...

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