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A mechanic from Connecticut (United States), who found dozens of abandoned works of art five years ago in an abandoned barn, is going to earn millions of euros from their sale because they are works of Francis Hinesknown for wrapping large-scale public works.
‘The Daily Mail’ informs that Jared Whipple, 40, got a call from his friend George Martin, 47, about pictures of painted car parts he had found inside Hines’ abandoned barn, thinking this mechanic would like them. The next day, Whipple went to the landfill where hundreds of pieces of art covered in dirt and wrapped in plastic were stored, to inspect them.
Whipple later discovered that the works were by Francis Hines, an abstract expressionist artist who died in 2016 at the age of 96 and had stored his work in the barn, The Guardian reports.
Hines was known for his ‘wrapping’ pieces, in which fabric is wrapped around an object. His art has been compared to that of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, famous for wrapping installations across Europe, as recently seen with the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Hines wrapped more than 10 buildings in New York, including the Washington Square Arch, JFK airport and the Port Authority Bus Terminal, art curator and historian Peter Hastings Falk tells this British medium.
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