The Times reports that International art experts have been called in by Italian police to authenticate what appears to be a Modigliani painting left in a staff lavatory next to customs at Bergamo airport. The painting was found wrapped in a sheet and packed inside a box. If genuine, it would be worth at least €1 million (£670,000). Art dealers said that no Modigliani painting would have been given an export licence by the Ministry of Culture. The painting is believed to be a portrait of Rosalie Tobia, an Italian woman painted many times by Modigliani in Paris. Rosalie, who began as an artists’ model, later ran a dairy-cum-restaurant in Montparnasse, “playing mother to the poverty-stricken artists whom she nourished” with pasta and minestrone. This month a 1918 painting of a girl in a black beret by Modigliani, Jeune Fille au Beret, fetched £6.1 million at a Christies art auction in London. The successful bidder, an unidentified woman, paid £2 million more than the estimate.
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Modi Found in Toilet
The Times reports that International art experts have been called in by Italian police to authenticate what appears to be a Modigliani painting left in a staff lavatory next to customs at Bergamo airport. The painting was found wrapped in a sheet and packed inside a box. If genuine, it would be worth at least €1 million (£670,000). Art dealers said that no Modigliani painting would have been given an export licence by the Ministry of Culture. The painting is believed to be a portrait of Rosalie Tobia, an Italian woman painted many times by Modigliani in Paris. Rosalie, who began as an artists’ model, later ran a dairy-cum-restaurant in Montparnasse, “playing mother to the poverty-stricken artists whom she nourished” with pasta and minestrone. This month a 1918 painting of a girl in a black beret by Modigliani, Jeune Fille au Beret, fetched £6.1 million at a Christies art auction in London. The successful bidder, an unidentified woman, paid £2 million more than the estimate.
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