New York appraiser and art dealer Glenn Spellman discovered an abstract painting signed "E.H." on the Goodwill thrift store website last fall. Suspecting it might be by Eva Hesse, he enlisted his sister Kara Spellman, director of estates and acquisitions at Hollis Taggart gallery, who confirmed the painting's authenticity by consulting the artist's catalogue raisonné at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's library. The painting, titled *Landscape Forms* (1959), was acquired for $40,000 and will be auctioned at Christie's New York on May 15 with an estimate of $60,000–$80,000. A second Hesse work, *No title* (1964–65), will be offered at Phillips New York the previous day.
This story matters because it highlights the ongoing allure of thrift-store art discoveries and the enduring market for works by major post-war artists like Eva Hesse, whose auction record remains modest relative to her art-historical significance. The sale of *Landscape Forms*—a painting completed the same year Hesse earned her BFA at Yale—offers collectors a rare opportunity to acquire an early work by a Post-Minimalist icon, while the simultaneous offerings at Christie's and Phillips underscore the sustained institutional and commercial interest in her oeuvre.