The museum lost a picture of Fernand Leger
Representatives of the museum Davis (USA) reported that they could not find in their vaults picture of the French Cubists Fernand Leger «Mother and Child»
picture of the French Cubists Fernand Leger «Mother and Child», written in 1921, disappeared from the museum's storage facility at Davis Uelsli prestigious women's college in Massachusetts. According to the newspaper The New York Times, the museum does not leave the hope to find missing canvas.
Job Lezha in 2006/2007 was exhibited in Oklahoma. At that time, Davis was in the museum renovation. When the painting returned to Massachusetts, she stayed in the box. This is a box and can not find in a museum.
The value of Lezha millions. According to agency Reuters, in May 2008 one of his paintings went under the hammer for 39.2 million dollars.
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