Day: February 8, 2018

Whose painting is this? Tracking the ancestry of art

In the world of film, questions of provenance are having a moment in both documentaries and fiction. In the 2015 film, “Woman in Gold,” Helen Mirren plays an octogenarian who finds proof that a famous painting by Gustav Klimt was the one that hung above her aunt and uncle’s fireplace when she was a child.

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