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Word: werkman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...value not even their owners dreamed of. Meindl wondered whether the two pocket-sized paintings (one is 6¾ by 4⅝ in., the other 6¼ by 3⅝ in.) he had been given in 1946 by an old teacher of his in Munich, Fräulein Josephine Werkman, just before her death, might be worth something. He took them to the restorer, who recognized them as the missing Pollaiuolos, worth perhaps $500,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: PURLOINED POLLAIUOLO PANELS | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

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