A painting by famed Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was stolen more than 20 years ago may have been discovered hidden in a wall of the Italian gallery where it was taken from.
A painting by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was stolen in 1997 might have been discovered hidden in a wall of the Italian gallery it was thought to have been stolen from.But this week it was found hidden inside a secret compartment in the gallery wallThe story of the missing masterpiece, a portrait of a young woman completed in 1917 and valued at 60 million euros , is considered one of the world's most baffling art mysteries.
It disappeared from the Ricci Oddi gallery in the northern city of Piacenza in February 1997, with police saying they believed thieves used a fishing line to hook it off the wall and haul it up through an open skylight to the gallery roof where the frame was discarded. A skilled forgery of the painting, wrapped up and posted to a disgraced politician, was seized by authorities a month later, adding to the mystery.Discovering a small trapdoor, he opened it to find what appeared to be the painting, inside a plastic rubbish bag.
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