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“Sold. To the gentleman in the back row.”
He turned the phone face down. The bidding started at five thousand pounds. Coldplay When You See Marie -Famous Old Paint...
She was waiting for someone to notice she was still waiting. “Sold
The museum woman hesitated. The auctioneer leaned in. “Nineteen thousand, once… twice…” wrapped in his overcoat
He didn’t have a wall to hang it on. His flat was a narrow boat of peeling wallpaper and unpaid bills. But he had a window. He carried the painting home on the Tube, wrapped in his overcoat, and propped it on a chair facing the west. The sun was setting. The real one, outside his grimy pane, was the color of a bruise. The painted one, on the canvas, was the color of hope.
