Spanish Museum Returns Paintings to Poland
December 14 2020
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Ponteverda Museum in Galicia, Spain, has returned two paintings to Poland after it was proven they were stolen by the Nazis in 1944. The paintings, versions of Ecce Homo and Dolorosa by Dieric Bouts, had been part of the Czartoryski Collection before the war.
According to news reports:
The paintings were taken from Warsaw in 1944 and appeared on the art market in Madrid in 1973, where they were purchased by a patron of the museum, Fernando Lopez, for his personal collection. In 1994, the diptych was purchased by the museum for a price currently equivalent to EUR 23,000.
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