![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly after the woman sold it at the auction house Actéon, which is just north of Paris, government officials sprang into action to prevent the painting from leaving the borders of France. In fact, she had no idea where she acquired the pioneering piece of 13th century Florentine art.Īrt expert Stéphane Pinta points to a 13th century painting by Italian master Cimabue in Paris. To the woman, who has stayed anonymous, it was not anything special. ![]() In September, word got out that a woman in her 90s living in northern France invited appraisers to her house to survey old furniture and other belongings before she sold her home.Ī stroll into the kitchen revealed the Cimabue painting hanging somewhat modestly above the woman's stove. The intervention by French officials follows a miraculous discovery story. A London collector purchased the piece on behalf of two unnamed collectors reportedly based in the U.S.īut now, the French government has moved to stop the export, declaring the artwork a "national treasure" that belongs in the country in order to "enrich our national collections." The 10-inch panel portrait titled The Mocking of Christ by the Italian artist Cimabue, sold for nearly $27 million at an auction outside of Paris in October. Officials in France are blocking the export of a remarkably rare medieval painting that was auctioned off after being discovered hanging in an elderly French woman's kitchen. That painting, sold for nearly $27 million, is now the subject of a power struggle between an art buyer and the government of France. Art expert Stéphane Pinta takes out of a glass case a 13th century painting by Italian master Cimabue in September. ![]()
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