A collection of 300 paintings worth millions of dollars has been discovered in a Polish outhouse belonging to a 92-year-old former bricklayer.
Police are baffled as to how the paintings came to be mixed up with rubbish in a dirty two-storey concrete building in the bricklayer’s garden near the north-western city of Szczecin.
They said the collection included works of art from the Renaissance and German baroque periods, with the oldest painting dating back to 1532. They also discovered a lithograph by the Polish artist Jozef Czajkowski, which disappeared from a museum in Katowice during the war.
A local art expert quoted by the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza said it was impossible to place an exact price on the collection, but he was sure it was worth millions of dollar — via redwolf.newsvine.com
RSS – Posts