{"id":172626,"date":"2018-07-23T06:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=172626"},"modified":"2018-07-23T21:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T01:53:39","slug":"art-dealer-buys-storage-locker-15000-finds-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/23\/art-dealer-buys-storage-locker-15000-finds-treasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Art dealer buys storage locker for $15,000, finds treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_172629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172629\" style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Artist-Willem-de-Kooning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-172629\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Artist-Willem-de-Kooning.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Artist-Willem-de-Kooning.png 1366w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Artist-Willem-de-Kooning-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Artist-Willem-de-Kooning-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Artist-Willem-de-Kooning-1024x550.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Willem de Kooning in his studio. An exhibit entitled &#8220;Willem de Kooning: from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection,&#8221; opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on October 21, 1993 and lasted through January 9, 1994. (<a href=\"https:\/\/siarchives.si.edu\/collections\/siris_sic_12653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-089, Box 4, Folder: Graphics Package<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A New York City art dealer who bought the contents of a New Jersey storage locker filled with paintings for $15,000 says he got more than he bargained for.<\/p>\n<p>He found half a dozen paintings he believes were done by artist Willem de Kooning, whose works have sold for millions of dollars at auction.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post reports David Killen bought the contents of the Ho-Ho-Kus (hoh-HOH&#8217;-kuhs), New Jersey, locker last year. The paintings were originally from the studio of art conservator Orrin Riley, who died in 1986, and his partner, Susanne Schnitzer, who died in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The paintings aren&#8217;t signed, but Killen reached out to an expert who&#8217;s confident they were done by de Kooning, an abstract expressionist from the Netherlands who moved to the United States and died in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A New York City art dealer who bought the contents of a New Jersey storage locker filled &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":172629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art-and-culture","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}