Amorous Couple back in Ukraine
July 15 2020
Picture: Wikipedia Commons
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A painting of An Amorous Couple by the French artist Pierre Louis Goudreaux (1694-1731) has been returned to the Ukraine. The picture, which had once been in the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of the Arts, was looted by the Nazis in 1943. The painting resurfaced in the USA during the 1990s, and had been put up for sale at Doyle's Auction House in 2013 where the picture was withdrawn on request from the Ukrainian authorities.
Here is a photograph of the painting hanging in the museum before the war.
The restitution was given the go-ahead at the beginning of this year, but has only now been completed.
