A Italian master painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in Amsterdam has been spotted on the website of an estate agent selling a house in Argentina, more than 80 years after it was taken.
A photo shows Portrait of a Lady by Giuseppe Ghislandi hanging above a sofa inside a property near Buenos Aires once owned by a senior Nazi official who moved to South America after the Second World War.
The painting, which features on a database of lost wartime art, was traced when the house was put up for sale by the official’s daughter, Dutch newspaper AD reports.
The artwork is among hundreds looted from art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, who helped other Jews escape during the war.
Hard to dupe a painting that’s been lost for 80 years.
The Lost Art database has a reference image so there obviously are copies. Granted! I’m as suspicious about a senior nazi officer who fled to Argentina as anyone else.
I’m too lazy to actually look but I’m betting even with an original quality reference photo, you still wouldn’t be able to make a replica at sell quality. Then again hasselblad made cameras i could see taking a good enough photo at the time.