A missing art masterpiece has been found, but the case is not closed.
This Friday, officials in the Italian city of Piacenza
a discovery made last December by gardeners at the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art. The painting found stuffed inside a black garbage bag and hidden within an exterior wall is, in fact, Gustav Klimt’s, which has been missing since 1997. The gardeners were clearing ivy when they came across a small access door and opened it.
The Austrian painter, who died in 1918, created the work between 1916 and 1917. It was acquired by the Ricci Oddi Gallery in 1925 and was included in their inauguration, in 1931. In 1996, X-ray analysis showed that it was an overpainted version of one of Klimt’s earlier lost works,. Ironically enough, this painting would also remain lost for more than two decades.was declared stolen. It was to have been moved to another building, to be the centerpiece for a temporary exhibition. It became one of Italy’s highest-profile cases of art theft.
Presumably to perplex investigators, the thieves left the work’s large frame on the gallery’s roof, perhaps to suggest they had entered through the skylight. However, the opening itself proved to be
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