Amateur art Collector pays $1,800 for a painting in Junk Shop, discovers it's worth $50 Million

An amateur art-lover stands to earn up to $50 million after unearthing the missing head that goes with a woman’s naked body in a notorious 19th century painting.


Gustave Courbet’s The Origin Of The World, displayed in one of Paris’s most prestigious museums, the Musee d’Orsay, depicts female genitalia. 

Until now it has only showed the body but experts believe the missing head has been uncovered after the anonymous art buff bought it for just $1,800 at a furniture shop. 

He is said to have knocked down the asking price by a sixth.