Painting Divides Town

A group of friends bought a painting of the Madonna and child for 32 hundred dollars at a Dublin Community Church auction last summer.

Turns out the painting is the lost third of a 14th century panel.

Sotheby's Auction House in New York sold it for nearly a half million dollars.

Morning Edition host Lisa Peakes talks with Rick O'Connor, one of the 6 friends who bought the painting, about how the purchase has caused a rift in the town.