Money | art $10 Goodwill Buy: $15K Painting Sotheby's to auction Ilya Bolotowsky work By Matt Cantor Posted Jul 23, 2012 11:27 AM CDT Updated Jul 28, 2012 12:49 PM CDT Copied Pedestrians walk past the Goodwill store in Moline, Ill., on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/The Dispatch, Paul Colletti) During a visit to Goodwill, a North Carolina artist spotted two large abstract paintings selling for $10 each. That's a quarter of the price a brand new canvas would have cost Beth Feeback, and she figured she could easily paint over them with her subject of choice—cats with big eyes. Good thing she didn't: After Googling the name found on the frame of one painting at a fellow artist's recommendation, Feeback learned that Ilya Bolotowsky was actually a well-established 20th-century painter. Feeback told Sotheby's about the find, and they said they'd be willing to auction it off—for an estimated price of $15,000 to $20,000, the Charlotte Observer reports. Now Feeback, whose own career hasn't been particularly lucrative, is eagerly awaiting the painting's planned Sept. 21 sale. Read These Next "Admiral Piett" of the Star Wars universe died from COVID. Trump voter who supported mass deportations could be deported herself. Shooter opens fire on Texas Border Patrol Rescuer in floods gets a poignant question. Report an error