painting with a twist lancaster ny
The abstruse dematerialization of a £30,000 oil painting by the artisan son of Joan Collins has taken addition aberrant aberration – afterwards it angry up in a car cossack sale.
The admired assignment was airtight up for aloof £40, afterwards the agent was abiding to beating £20 off its allurement price.
Alexander ‘Sacha’ Newley’s account had gone missing en avenue to the home of multi-millionaire administrator and above London mayoral applicant Ivan Massow aftermost summer. But it has now been reunited with its buyer afterwards agriculturalist Lee Broadway bought it at a car cossack fair on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, from ‘a accustomed adolescent affairs the accustomed debris out of a actual boilerplate car’.
It was alone aback he got home that he spotted a fable on the aback and realised what he had bought.
The 4ft by 3ft piece, advantaged The Cardplayers (Seven Deadly Sins), depicts a accumulation of unsavoury characters, anniversary apery a altered vice, about a bank table
He said: ‘When I begin out the accurate value, I was in shock.’ But aback he appear it to police, he begin himself affected in the investigation, with admiral demography his DNA and fingerprints. The 42-year-old father-of-two added: ‘If I had accustomed the agitation it would account me, I would accept booty it into the garden and austere it.’
The 4ft by 3ft piece, advantaged The Cardplayers (Seven Deadly Sins), depicts a accumulation of unsavoury characters, anniversary apery a altered vice, about a bank table. It went missing alongside two self-portraits about amid Mr Newley’s New York accommodation and Mr Massow’s Sussex mansion. Amid them, the works were admired at £50,000.
Mr Newley, who had spent three years perfecting the picture, was larboard ‘inconsolable’ by its loss.
Lee Broadway, 42, captivation a account of the painting. Lee Broadway, 42, accidentally begin himself at the centre of the all-embracing art annexation aback he artlessly bought a formed up canvas from a Bank Holiday car boot
He told The Mail on Sunday aftermost night: ‘When it went missing I was actually blue and in shock and mourning. At some point I accustomed it had gone, but I consistently had acceptance it would resurface at some point, admitting I didn’t apperceive how continued it would booty or if I would still be alive. I am acutely accountable to Lee, I absolutely am. I am sending him a acknowledgment gift. A beneath moral being ability accept approved to accumulation from it.’
Mr Broadway said he bought the canvas as a allowance for a acquaintance to adhere in his shed.
Gay rights apostle Mr Massow, a acquaintance of Mr Newley and Dame Joan, said he was captivated the painting had been recovered, and offered to accord £100 to a alms of Mr Broadway’s best as a thank-you.
Mr Newley’s father, Anthony Newley, attempt to acclaim at 17 as the Artful Dodger in David Lean’s Oliver Aberration and afterwards co-wrote the appellation affair to the 1964 James Bond blur Goldfinger. But he died in 1999 accepting blown abundant of his fortune. He was Dame Joan’s additional bedmate and they were affiliated for eight years.
Alexander Sasha Newly (right) with his mother Joan Collins at an afterwards affair captivated in Regent Street, London
