It's a fantasy akin to winning the lottery. That painting you spotted in an antique shop for a tenner turns out to be worth thousands, or the ugly painting gifted to you by your grandmother and ...

who was the widow of the art dealer Harold Diamond.’’ The 1918-19 painting “was magnificent, but so was the price, so I didn’t buy it. In 1969 Hester sold it to Jacques Koerfer,” the ...