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Title: Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Resurfaces
Post by: talesofthesevenseas on September 26, 2019, 06:08:09 am

Wow. I wonder how this ended up in her kitchen?

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cimabue-masterpiece-discovered-scli-intl/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3fH0a3caKBNyBQed8X3exUFmIM36nwnlKGqS0FuPyJAsiLgtD2hQwx6pw (https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cimabue-masterpiece-discovered-scli-intl/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3fH0a3caKBNyBQed8X3exUFmIM36nwnlKGqS0FuPyJAsiLgtD2hQwx6pw)

Title: Re: Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Resurfaces
Post by: ghopper1924 on September 26, 2019, 08:46:38 am

Utterly fantastic! What a find.

Title: Re: Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Resurfaces
Post by: jacon4 on September 26, 2019, 02:20:33 pm

Yeah, i read about that in the news, rare find, no doubt! Guesses the elderly French lady is one happy camper.

Title: Re: Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Resurfaces
Post by: KC on September 28, 2019, 06:31:23 pm

jacon4

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Yeah, i read about that in the news, rare find, no doubt! Guesses the elderly French lady is one happy camper.

Depending....I know a lot of elderly do not like change and at some point money doesn't hold a lot of significance.  She might miss it in it's place in her kitchen more than the money.

Title: Re: Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Resurfaces
Post by: cogar on October 28, 2019, 04:33:35 am

The work, a masterpiece titled "Christ Mocked" and attributed to the Italian painter Cimabue, sold for $26.6 million

Read more @  https://www.foxnews.com/world/long-lost-painting-french-kitchen-sells-auction (https://www.foxnews.com/world/long-lost-painting-french-kitchen-sells-auction)

Title: Re: Lost Cimabue Masterpiece Resurfaces
Post by: mart on October 28, 2019, 06:05:54 pm

I would sure be a happy camper after that sale !!