Posted on 10/22/2020 12:18:20 PM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A visitor to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art helped solve the mystery of a long-lost painting after recognizing a piece hanging in her neighbors' apartment.
The museum said a visitor to the "Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle" exhibition at the museum noticed the artworks resembled a painting she had seen in her neighbors' apartment, and her curiosity was piqued further when she read that five of the 30 panels examining early U.S. history were missing.
The woman spoke to her neighbors, an elderly couple who had purchased the painting at a friend's Christmas charity art auction in 1960.
The couple spoke to museum officials and found out the Lawrence painting hanging in their Upper West Side Manhattan apartment was indeed one of the missing panels.
The painting, Panel 16 of the series, rejoined the rest of the series for the first time in decades Wednesday when it was hung in the exhibition. The couple loaned the painting to the exhibition and gave permission for it to go on tour with the rest of the paintings when the exhibition at the Met ends Nov. 1.
"Last week a friend of mine went to the show and said, 'There's a blank spot on the wall and I believe that's where your painting belongs,'" one of the owners told The New York Times. "I felt I owed it both to the artist and the Met to allow them to show the painting."
The painting's rediscovery was welcomed by museum director Max Hollein.
"It is rare to make a discovery of this significance in modern art, and it is thrilling that a local visitor is responsible," Hollein said.
Carnac says, “All of them.”
I have always considered “art” to be a skill, that I can assure you I don’t posses. If it looks like something I could do (Pollack et. al.), then it doesn’t qualify as art.
Like music...I could learn to work the piano as a machine and play by rote what I had practiced, but I never had that “feel” for music. I could never improvise a riff. I always strung together riffs from other artists that I had learned and never laid down anything original or memorable. Being an artist is an intrinsic quality that few possess.
This one "Number 17A" sold in 2016 for $200m.
But then, on the other hand, you have a painter like Mark Rothko (1903-70) Large paintings $25m+.
Which would you prefer? Remember, art is in the eye of the beholder!
My garage floor looks like that. It’s detracts from the value of my home.
You’ve heard of that Picasso fellow, haven’t ya?
You hit my memory button with this comment. The 1970's TV Series M*A*S*H started as a jeremiad against the Vietnam War but in its latter years, with much more rounded characters, it was so very superior. The late David Ogden Stiers (1942-2018), playing Major Winchester, had written for him and gave a bravura performance about this very gift in this 5 minute clip. The fact was that Mr Stiers was very dedicated to classical music in his life and I think that this piece was a beautiful marriage of his passions.
One of my all-time favorite TV clips and I think you will agree!
There are some nice Pollocks. That's not one of them.
The Rothko would add a burst of colors to a room.
Paying large sums of money for either isn't about appreciating art. It's an investment for the rich.
Does anyone believe they're beautiful art? Not really.
At this level the rich pay top dollar hoping they can resell at a profit in a few years.
That's pretty much why art dealers hype artists. Supply/demand, dead artist/limited supply.
It's not art appreciation. It's gambling on a payoff.
If it looks nice and adds color to the room, that's just a minor plus.
Usually the ‘money’ angle........................
Was it a caveman and some buffalo?
It should have stayed lost.
Some of this art was allegedly pushed by our State Department during the Cold War
>>I’m just not sure what angle the artist was going for.
Make some money with limited craft skills
“Some of this art was allegedly pushed by our State Department during the Cold War”
Interesting.
Like Hillary supporting all the weird occult creepy artists when she was SoS.
https://art.state.gov/portfolio/modern-art-and-the-cold-war/
For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art – including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko – as a weapon in the Cold War...
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