LONDON – Painter Tomas Georgeson has artfully tried to drum
up attendance at a London gallery by hiding $12,500 — most of his life savings
– among the paintings and other artworks for the taking if anyone can find it.
Georgeson has left the blank check for £8,000 ($12,600) in the Milton Keynes Gallery.
Georgeson told the Daily Telegraph that he hid the check in
the gallery on Tuesday morning and, to get word out, he placed an ad in a
newspaper flagging it to peoples’ attention. The advert warns that the money
“will be collected on 1 March 2013 if unclaimed.”
