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Antiques Roadshow: Painting valued between $200k-$300k<\/h3>\n

During Antiques Roadshow\u2019s tour of Chicago in 2014, one attendee got some sensational news as he learned that one of his favourite paintings from his parents\u2019 collection had increased in value thirty-fold since they bought it.<\/p>\n

He brought in a sombre surrealist painting by the late artist Leonora Carrington, who had died just three years before which increased the value of her artworks.<\/p>\n

Speaking to expert Alan Fausel of the American Kennel Club, the man admitted he didn\u2019t know much about the meaning behind the painting or the artist herself aside from the fact that she moved from Europe to Mexico after the Second World War.<\/p>\n

However, he was left wide-eyed when Alan revealed that the obscure piece his parents had bought for, at most, $10,000 around the same time it had been painted was now worth up to $300,000.<\/p>\n

The expert explained that while that was all true, there was so much more to the painting that viewers could understand at first glance.<\/p>\n

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Undoubtedly the most famous surrealist is Salvador Dali, who brought the art style into popularity with his otherworldly imaginings, but Alan highlighted that surrealists also tended to look at their \u201cdreams and nightmares\u201d for inspiration.<\/p>\n

He noted that a nightmare is likely what influenced the specific artwork the guest had brought in, with its fiendish creatures and dark colour palette.<\/p>\n

Alan pointed out the \u201clarge wolf-like figure with multiple arms and legs\u201d that seemed to be the main subject of the painting in the center, surrounded by bushes which he pointed out also housed some hidden \u201cwolf-like faces\u201d and \u201clooming\u201d bat-like creatures.<\/p>\n

Knowing some history of the artist greatly assisted in understanding the meaning behind the \u201cmacabre\u201d piece as the expert explained: \u201cAfter the war, she suffered a nervous breakdown.<\/p>\n

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