Lost painting by Polish-Jewish artist returns to Poland after discovery in New York storage. (Click
Lost painting by Polish-Jewish artist returns to Poland after discovery in New York storage. (Click to see the painting)■A valuable work by a leading 19th century Polish-Jewish artist – which for decades was thought to be lost – will once again be displayed in Poland after being discovered in storage in New York.■The painting, an oil-on-canvas self-portrait by Maurycy Gottlieb, was recently purchased at auction by an anonymous buyer for 2.7 million zloty (€600,000). He has now deposited it at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, where it will be shown in public for the first time in over a century.■ Maurycy Gottlieb was known as one of the most talented students of Poland’s most renowned painter, Jan Matejko. Though he died at the age of just 23 in 1879, Gottlieb left behind a large number of works, many of which interwove Polish and Jewish themes. -- source link
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