Man Finds Cash In The Attic In The Form Of Priceless Picasso Painting

My attic isn’t exactly a breeding ground for cool and expensive items. It’s more car boot sale crap than auction house showroom. But for Dominic Currie, from Methil near Kircaldy in Fife, his trip into his attic proved to be a lot more lucrative than he expected.

Dominic stumbled across a Picasso painting worth an estimated 115 million, given to his mother by his father to ensure that Dominic could be provided for.

In an interesting back-story, Dominic’s mother Annette fell pregnant with him whilst on holiday in Poland when she was 19. Dominic’s father was 19-year-old soldier Nicolai Vladimirovich, who only found out about his son in 1998, two years before Annette died.

Dominic’s parents wrote to each other and Annette occasionally took trips to Poland to see Nicolai. It was on one of these trips that Nicolai gave her the painting in question. Decades later and it could be sold for as much as 115 million at Christie’s auction house. Dominic is currently waiting by the phone to see if his painting is genuine, with a massive cash pot at stake.

Speaking about the painting, Dominic was more hopeful about meeting his father than the price of the painting, “If my painting is genuine, my father obviously wanted to look after me and my mother well. For that I’d love to shake his hand, I’d love to meet him.”

A heartwarming story after years apart from each other, I hope that Dominic gets to meet his real father, and pockets a healthy cash sum in the process. That would be the ideal way for this lovely story of ‘cash in the attic’ to end. While Nicolai could be giving his son a great gift, this father went to great lengths to show his sick son that he could do anything with his life.