Police said Tuesday Gustav
Klimt's Portrait of a Lady, stolen from Piacenza's Ricci Oddi
Modern Art Gallery in 1997, may have been recovered.
During work to clean up ivy covering the gallery's exterior
wall, they said, an interspace closed by a door was discovered,
behind which there was a bag containing the picture.
An expert's first inspection indicated the painting was the
stolen Klimt, one of the most sought-after stolen works in the
world.
Further analysis is underway to certify the authenticity of
the work.
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