A landscape by Claude Monet (1840-1926) has been found in a suitcase the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt had with him during a hospital stay, the latest piece to emerge from his long-hidden art trove.
The suitcase was left at the hospital for unknown reasons, and was handed over earlier that week to the court-appointed administrator of Gurlitt’s estate, the task force investigating the pieces’ origin said on Sept. 5.
The latest find comes after officials in July reported finding a few more works at Gurlitt’s Munich apartment, including a sculpture apparently by Edgar Degas (1834-1917).
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Like the Monet, they were not among 1,280 pieces authorities seized from the apartment in 2012 while investigating a tax case, a collection that included works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Henri Matisse (1869-1954) and Marc Chagall (1887-1985). It was not immediately clear where the Monet was kept and why it was not seized.
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克洛德‧莫內（1840-1926）一幅風景畫在德國已故收藏家科尼利厄斯‧古里特住院時帶的行李箱中被發現，這是其長期隱藏的藝術收藏中最新出現的一件。
調查這件藝品來源的專案小組九月五日說，這個行李箱因不明原因被留在這家醫院，當週稍早被交給法庭指派的古里特資產管理人員。
在這項最新發現之前，官員才剛在七月通報說，發現古里特在慕尼黑的公寓內還有一些藝品，包括顯然是（法國印象派畫家）竇加（1834-1917）的雕塑品。
就像這幅莫內作品一樣，這些藝品都不包括在當局二０一二年調查一起稅務案時，從這間公寓扣押的一千兩百八十件作品之中。那些收藏品包括畢卡索（1881-1973）、馬蒂斯（1869-1954）、夏卡爾（1887-1985）的作品。目前不清楚這幅莫內作品保存在何處，以及為何沒被扣押。
（自由時報提供／翻譯：自由時報國際新聞中心）
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