Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Missing Painting Found by New York City Doorman

September 17, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Art Crime & Legal

NEW YORK (AP).- A doorman who works across from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art found a painting outside his building and kept it for weeks, then realized it was a missing work at the center of a bizarre legal web and turned it in to investigators this week, an official said. “Portrait of a Girl,” painted in the mid-1800s by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, vanished in late July after a middleman showing the work to a prospective buyer at a Manhattan [...]