Rare Painting Found Behind Door in French Home

We really want to find something in our own homes. What’s behind your door? While it sounds like the beginning of “Let’s Make a Deal,” one lucky family in the north of France has hit the jackpot with what has been sitting behind a door of their home since 1900. The family decided after 123 […]

Hanging in Plain Sight: 7-Year-Old Recognizes Family Heirloom as 17th-Century Masterpiece 

Seen from the eyes of babes: A woman in England loved a painting of a man she called “Charley” that had been owned by her grandparents. Her 7-year-old history buff son loved it, too. But he suspected something the grownups didn’t: that the painting was of one of his favorite historical kings, the 17th-century monarch […]

Missing Painting “Found” in NYC Home 

A 30-panel series of paintings, “Struggle: From the History of the American People (1954–56)” by renowned Black artist Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), was put on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, from January 18 to April 26, 2020. Five paintings in the series were “lost” and represented on the wall with empty spaces. […]