意大利博物馆名画被盗,20年后发现就藏在馆里

2021-02-02 23:39:39  每日学英语
A painting found stashed inside a wall at an Italian museum has been confirmed as the stolen "Portrait of a Lady" by Austria's Gustav Klimt, prosecutors said on Friday, two decades after it went missing. "It is with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic," Prosecutor Ornella Chicca told reporters, referring to the painting discovered last month by gardeners inside an external wall at the Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art in Piacenza.

意大利检方周五表示,一幅被发现藏在意大利一家博物馆墙壁内的油画,已被证实是奥地利画家古斯塔夫•克里姆特的一幅失窃画像。也就是在这幅画失踪的20年之后它被找回。检察官奥内拉·奇卡对记者说,我可以非常激动地告诉你们,这幅画是真的。他指的是上个月园丁在皮亚琴察的里奇·奥迪现代艺术画廊的外墙内发现的这幅画。

Museum officials had initially said they could not immediately determine whether the painting was indeed the stolen Klimt until scientific tests were performed. Painted in 1916-1917, the Expressionist work depicts the face and torso of a young woman with brown hair, over an emerald green background.

博物馆官员最初表示,在进行科学测试之前,他们不能马上确定这幅画是否确实是被盗的克里姆特的作品。这幅表现主义作品创作于1916年至1917年,描绘了一位棕色头发的年轻女性的面部和躯干,背景为翠绿色。

The painting -- which the museum estimated could be worth between 60 and 100 million euros (USD 67-111 million) -- went missing in February 1997 while the museum was closed for work. In December, gardeners removing ivy from a wall found a small ventilation space inside of which they discovered the painting, without a frame, wrapped in a black garbage bag.

据该博物馆估计,这幅画的价值在6000万到1亿欧元(约合6700万到1.11亿美元)之间。1997年2月,这幅画在博物馆闭馆期间失踪。去年12月,园丁们在拆除墙上的常春藤时,找到了一个小小的通风空间,在里面发现了这幅没有画框的画,它被包裹在一个黑色的垃圾袋里。

The ivy covering the space had not been cut back for almost a decade. In 1996 it was determined through X-ray analysis that the painting covered up another, that of the face of a different woman. (AFP) RUP

覆盖着这片空地的常春藤已经近十年没有修剪过了。1996年,通过x射线分析,人们确定这幅画覆盖了另一个女人的脸。-法新社

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