Posted on 12/04/2016 10:13:48 AM PST by EveningStar
Two agents from U.S. Homeland Security’s ICE unit arrived at my door in September looking for a Polish lady — not a person, but a painting: Melchior Geldorp’s “Portrait of a Lady.” She had, they informed me, been looted by the Nazis from the National Museum in Warsaw.
Unsure if these gentlemen were indeed who they claimed to be, I didn’t invite them in. But I knew exactly what they were seeking: My partner, David, and I had purchased this very portrait — ostensibly the work of a different artist — a decade earlier from a major auction house in New York.
Upon their leaving, I stood dumbfounded, holding a packet of information about the alleged provenance of our painting. After calling David at work to drop this bombshell, I began a Googling frenzy, eventually bringing me to Poland’s Division for Looted Art website. Seconds later I was gawking at an old black-and-white photo of our beloved lady, a beautiful portrait painted on oak panel in 1628. Tears welled in my eyes with the realization that, without question, if this were true we needed to do our duty and get her safely home.
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More like “Yecchhie Homo”.
I've never heard that before but,for the sake of argument,I'll accept it as accurate.However,one might think that as time passed and these pervs saw their playmates disappearing during the night you'd think that their support might have weakened.
Well, he had tears in his eyes over it, so it’s all good.
A couple of fags. Who cares if they lost a painting that had originally been pillaged anyway?
Lol.
“He has shown remorse!”
(Meanwhile, the criminal is thinking of new crimes.)
Makes me wonder what other questionable purchases they made artwise.
Just yesterday the New York Post reported on an antique shop in Manhattan selling 4 Tiffany chandeliers stolen from the Belasco Theater on B’way 40 years ago. The art & antiques world is full of thieves and fences.
I think it’s an interesting story. Poland lost (as did others) a great deal during WW II. However, Poland has always been quiet about it. A humble nation and people. Glad to see some of their art coming home.
Remember the scene in Indiana Jones in which a cheap pocket watch is mentioned. Drop it in the sand and in two thousand years it will be priceless! Same for that painting. It is OLD and rare.
Think some Parisian monuments should go back to Egypt?
Their (homosexuals) ranks were somewhat thinned at the Röhm Putsch (aka “Night of the Long Knives”) 30 June to 02 July 1934 when Hitler purged (executed) the Nazi SA ‘Brownshirts’ under Ernst Röhm as well as many other on his enemies list. The Nazi establishment used the excuse of ‘moral turpitude’ (homosexual) as many in the SA were known for the inclination but it was really an attack by a tyrant against rivals!
Presumably the Times was too busy reporting on an election stolen from the elites just three weeks ago.
ha...
“The part that has me scratching my head is that this fell under the auspices of DHS.”
Stolen/looted art and antiquities fund terrorist organizations, or so they say.
Too bad these filthy news sites won’t let you read an article if you have an ad blocker turned on. And I refuse to subscribe. I tried searching for another news account of the story, but the only ones available were linked to the LA Times story. Oh well.
Depends on who stole them...... There’s also a case in your line of thinking that England should also return a butt load of stuff.
The homosexual mind considers nothing beyond personal self-gratification. I have known many more homosexuals than the average person has and I can’t think of a one that had anything more than that on his agenda.
Yes, the entire issue today was devoted to hatin’ on Mr. Trump. What a dull newspaper.
Actually not - as reported in the article, the legal terminology is just that, "seizure", as they had stolen property and thus subject to that legal definition.
Receiving no formal request for the painting’s return, we felt we were repatriating of our own volition. Reading the necessary paperwork, however, there was no avoiding the terminology being used: seizure.
I'll bet "Whistler's Mother-in-Law" is better than this, also, LOL.
Leni
Thank you. I am not a lawyer, but I did spend the night at a Holiday Inn;)
His partner David? Isn’t that special?
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