They said it couldn't be done but we managed a front page story again!

Last Wednesday we did the story posted yesterday, and today we have the story below.

This one was not a front page center one, but a color picture on the side bar of page one and a page three story.

A news story, not an art story. Very hard to do without a killing or some other type of mayhem.

The story follows:

Mystery painting fetches $2,900

Buyer gambles that it's a Lawren Harris
April 20, 2009
The Hamilton SpectatorDUNDAS (Apr 20, 2009)
A painting hyped by speculation that it could be by Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris has sold for $2,900.
The painting was up for grabs at the 39th annual Dundas Valley School of Art auction, held Saturday night.
It was purchased by a local doctor who plans to look into whether the painting is actually a Harris, said DVSA executive director Arthur Greenblatt.
Greenblatt said the painting went for "more than I would've gotten for it if we'd never had the publicity," but he said it was not as much as he'd hoped.
The minimum bid on the work was $100.
The mystery painting, which is unsigned, is simply dated "1921 Canada."
Greenblatt said that before he received the work of art it was shown to leading Canadian auction house Ritchie’s, which was unable to verify that it was a Harris.
The auction house did authenticate it as a Canadian School painting from the early part of the 20th century, he said.
The painting was not the most expensive piece sold at the auction, though.
That honour went to a large acrylic on canvas painting, a landscape by E. Robert Ross, which features a view of Dundas Valley. It sold for $5,000.