Unbelievable moment man finds his aunt’s artwork in op shop
A man has broken down in tears as he found a painting done by his aunt in his favourite op shop.
Influencer Christian Hull was sifting through an antique shop in Brisbane when something caught his eye from behind a cushion.
“I walk into this stall and there on the ground is a beautiful brightly coloured art work from the 1980’s that reminds me so much of my aunt,” he said of his artist aunt, Helen McCosker, who is based in Sydney and has no connection to the Queensland city.
“It was her style of drawing and just screamed at me,” Hull shared on his social media accounts.
“I thought to myself how strange that this drawing instantly reminded me of her. I wanted it… I knew it wasn’t one of hers because the likely hood of that was 0%. No way a drawing she did in Sydney in the 80’s would be in my favourite shop in Brisbane staring at me.”
His find was confirmed when he spotted his aunt’s signature in the bottom corner of the artwork, as he said, “There in the corner I saw it and SCREAMED! It was her classic HMK in a circle.”
“I was stunned, here was a work she had done before I was born. I needed to have it.”
The content creator was in tears at the find, and quickly snapped up the artwork which was priced at $200, before he promptly called his aunt to tell her of the news, as he found out the story behind the painting.
“I was hoping it was a secret lover and that I had uncovered a scandalous family secret but sadly not the case,” he shared.
Hull relayed that the artwork was of a man named Andrew and was done in a life drawing class she used to go to, with it still being in it’s original frame.
“We both were shocked at the randomness of the discover… It’s so crazy that I saw this thought of her and then realised it was one of her works!” he said of the “surreal” moment.
Fans were equally amazed by the find, as one person commented, “That’s crazyyyyy. But what an amazing find! Funny how things come full circle, it was meant to be hanging in your home.”
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