$26 Million Masterpiece Is Found in Elderly Woman's Kitchen, but France Is Blocking Its Export
A rare masterpiece by Italian painter Cimabue was sold at auction for $26.8 million this year after it was discovered in an elderly woman’s kitchen — but France is now blocking the buyer’s attempts to export the painting.
The painting, “Christ Mocked,” created by Cimabue in the 13th century, depicts the mocking of Jesus Christ before his crucifixion and is one of a series of three panels by the artist that shows the Passion of Christ. “Cimabue” is the pseudonym of Italian artist Cenni di Pepo., the piece was discovered above a hotplate in the kitchen of a woman in her 90s living in Northern France.
“I had a week to give an expert view on the house contents and empty it,” appraiser Philomène Wolf toldreported. “I had to make room in my schedule … if I didn’t, then everything was due to go to the dump.”“You rarely see something of such quality,” she recalled. “I immediately thought it was a work of Italian primitivism. But I didn’t imagine it was a Cimabue.
“It didn’t take long for us to see that it was an artwork by Italian painter Cimabue,” Jerome Montcouquil of Cabinet Turquin toldRELATED VIDEO: $1.4 Million Banksy Artwork Self-Destructs Right After Being Auctioned OffBut after the auction, the French Advisory Committee on National Treasures decided to block the export of the valuable painting, which now means it will remain in the country for another 30 months.
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