David Bowie Painting Bought at Thrift Store Worth Big Bucks

A painting that was bought for less than $5 at a Canadian thrift store was identified as a David Bowie original — and now it’s going to sell for a lot of cash.

The painting is up for auction now at Cowley Abbott through June 24th and the bidding is already over $17,000 in Canadian dollars (which is almost $14,000 in U.S. dollars). The auction house said the painting was purchased for $4.09 from a donation center for household goods in South River, Ontario and was later discovered to have been painted by Bowie in 1997.

The painting, titled D Head XLVI, is part of a series Bowie did between 1995 and 1997. Cowley Abbot says that Bowie “created a series of approximately 47 works on canvas which he entitled Dead Heads (or D Head). Each title included a non-sequential Roman numeral. The sitters ranged from band members, friends and acquaintances and there were also some self-portraits.”