A Portrait of Pyotr Basin

Kiprensky Orest. A Portrait of Pyotr Basin. 1829
Kiprensky Orest
1829

The painting was removed by the Nazis in 1941. The portrait was returned to the Russian Museum in 1998 thanks to a determined search and active negotiations with the owner, who had purchased it at an auction in 1996 for $170,000

Музей: 

Russian Museum

Magazine issue : 
#3 2007 (16)
Автор статьи: 

Anatoly Vilkov

Статья: 

Retrieving Russia’s Cultural Heritage