At the residence of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic found a rare etching Goya

Etching Francisco Goya, long considered as lost, was recently discovered in the kitchen at the residence of former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic (Slobodan Milosevic). He said a journalist from the Serbian newspaper Politika, which during his visit to the residence to learn this piece.

It is called Muchachos al avio and one of the famous series «Kaprichos» No. 11. This copy is a rare, first edition of the cycle, printed in 1799.

sheet, which shows a gang of thieves, formerly belonged to the former Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito (Josip Broz Tito). Etching out a him in 1978 as a gift from Thierno Galvan, Enrique (Enrique Tierno Galvan), which was then headed by the Socialist People's Party of Spain. During his reign Tito assembled an impressive collection of works of art, most of which after his death, the museum moved to Belgrade. However, many masterpieces, such as the etching Goya, trace «disappeared» in 1990. It is supposed that Milosevic found this job when he moved to the former residence of Tito in Belgrade. Thus far, however, remains unclear who hanged etching on the wall in the kitchen at the villa where Milosevic and the other treasures from the collection of Tito.

Sources: artinfo.com , artforum.com