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Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner

The Art Newspaper

An unsigned and untitled Thomson painting of a lake in Algonquin Park, which he originally gifted to his friend Charlie Scrim, was entrusted to Waddington’s Auction House in Toronto in 2015 by Joseph Murray, whose uncle had given it to him in 1977. Larry Humber

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Rare Stradivarius Violin Sells for Over $11 Million

WorthPoint

Some argue that its down to his secret techniques; others have even theorized that its down to the wood he used being from Europes Little Ice Age, a period of unusually long winters that led trees to grow more slowly, giving their wood unique properties. million in 2010 , the highest auction price for any instrument at that time.

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