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A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Met) discovered a painting in his neighbor’s apartment that had been missing for decades. The image of American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is now part of the exhibition on loan, the museum announced Wednesday (local time). It is one of 30 in the series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” by the African-American artist at the time of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum. Five of the images were considered missing, of two only the titles were known, including the one that has now been rediscovered.
Therefore, the woman had visited the exhibition and immediately thought of the painting in her neighbors’ apartment on the Upper West Side, not far from the Metropolitan Museum. On the way home, he encouraged his neighbors to contact the museum. Neighbors bought the image for a small sum at a local charity auction in 1960 and, according to their own statements, were unaware of its relevance to art history.
“A friend looked at the exhibit and said, ‘There’s a white stain on the wall and I think that’s where your photo belongs,'” said the owner of the New York Times. “I felt that I owed both the artist and the Met to allow the image to be shown.” She was 27 when she and her husband bought it. “The image has been hanging intact in my living room for 60 years.”
The museum was finally able to confirm that it was the original, as it was called. “A discovery of this importance in modern art is rare,” said the Austrian director of the Metropolitan Museum, Max Hollein. “And it’s exciting that a local visitor is responsible for it.” The Met is the largest art museum in the United States.
