MASTERPIECE FOUND
ART TREASURE IN VIENNA Art experts recently unearthed here a long-missing masterpiece of Peter Breughle, called “The Rural Festival,” which disappeared many years ago. The painting, long regarded as one of the finest works of this early Flemish painter, was securely sheltered before the World war in the private gallery of Baron Kanenko. the Russian magnate, at Kiev. He possessed the finest private collection of Breughle paintings in the world. During the Bolshevik revolution it disappeared, and the art world has since mourned it as probably destroyed by vandals. Early this year the missing masterpiece turned up in a small town in the Austrian hinterland, still in an excellent state of preservation despite a slight warping of its wooden “cradle” or backing. The painting was authenticated by the German expert, Professor Bode, who recently died in Berlin.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 27
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