BELLPORT, N.Y. – Works by an obscure Armenian-American abstract impressionist discovered in a New York cottage have been appraised at $30 million.
The cottage’s new owner in 2007 found thousands of paintings, drawings and journals by Arthur Pinajian in a garage and attic. News 12 Long Island says Peter Hastings Falk valued the works. He once appraised art from the Andy Warhol estate.
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Some pieces already have sold for $500,000.
A recently published book by art historian William Innes Homer calls Pinajian’s abstractions among the best of his era.
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