Europe

The Hole in the Wall, The Dead Curator’s Diary, and the Strange Case of the Missing Masterpiece

HOLE IN THE WALL GANG

The truth about why Klimt’s 1917 “Portrait of a Lady” was found hidden in a museum wall in Italy may lie in the dead curator’s secret diaries.

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Gustav Klimt

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