PAINTING'S ESCAPE
A VALUABLE WORK After narrowly escaping being burned and spending five years in ji fowlhouse and several more in an auction room in Palmerston North, a painting bought for 2s 6d lias been found to be of great value. The man who originally owned the picture, which depicts the head and shoulders of Christ, threw it into a fowlhouse, where it remained for live years. Because of the subject, ho refrained from burning it. Later lie 6cnt it to an auction room, where it remained for years among odds and ends. The present owner bought; it at the mart for 2s Gd, and ho said the firm thought it was overcharging. The picture was * renovated and, sent to Christie's, London, where it was pronounced to be a genuine Guido Reni. Its yalue is unknown, but it is not for sale.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23662, 22 May 1940, Page 10
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