In the suitcase of Cornelius Gurlitt after his death found a Monet landscape
ARTinvestment.RU   08 сентября 2014

Small landscape by Claude Monet Gurlitt took with him to the hospital in December 2013. Checked out a collector for a few weeks before his death (in may 2014) but the suitcase for some reason.

reclusive Collector Cornelius Gurlitt literally tried to carry with him to the grave the work of Claude Monet. Small landscape he took the suitcase to the hospital when he was hospitalized in December last year with heart disease. He was discharged a few weeks before the death of (died in may of 2014), but the suitcase for some reason remained in hospital@

recently, the court-appointed administrator of Gurlitt collection received Gurlitt left the hospital suitcase and found a landscape by Claude Monet in light blue tones, written about 1864. According to experts, found the landscape very similar to the famous work by Monet, 1867 "terrace at Sainte-Adresse". The administrator heritage Gurlitt promised to find out, could this work illegally confiscate the Nazis. It turned out that many of the works from the collection of Cornelius Gurlitt, son of art dealer Hildebrandt Gurlitt, collaborated with the Nazis, were stolen from the pre-war vladelcev@

Case Monet painting perfectly illustrates the saying of collector-recluse, done in an interview with Der Spiegel last November: "There is nothing in this life that I like better than my pictures".

Sources: artnet.com, theguardian.com, artinvestment.ru



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