Recovered art

Painting found in gallery wall authenticated as stolen Klimt

Piacenza, Italy · Source report date:

Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of a Lady held up following its identification in Piacenza.
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Experts confirmed that the painting found in a cavity in the Ricci Oddi gallery wall in December 2019 was Portrait of a Lady, missing since 1997.

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Individual artwork identification details have not yet been documented in this record. Missing specifications are not inferred from the photograph or report headline.

Not documented in this record: object type · materials & technique · measurements · inscriptions & markings · distinguishing features · artwork title · maker / attribution · creation date / period · subject.

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Recovered art

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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