AI Just Helped Identify a Long-Lost F.C.B. Cadell Painting Bought for Under $100
A painting bought for under $100 at a White Plains thrift store about 60 years ago by Helene Plotkin was identified with help from Google’s Gemini chatbot as a work by Scottish Colorist F.C.B. Cadell (1883–1937). Plotkin’s son Barry, 60, researched the work last December by uploading a photo to Gemini, which suggested Cadell and prompted contact with specialists Nick Curnow and Alice Strang at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh. The specialists verified it as an original Cadell canvas and clarified that the sitter is the model May Easter (not “Miss Don Wauchope,” as written on the back), calling it one of the artist’s masterworks. The painting sold to a private buyer at auction on June 4 for £189,200 including fees, and the article says the family’s windfall exceeded $250,000.
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