For 70 years, this Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited and under lock and key. The rent was faithfully paid throughout these years, but nobody had a clue of what was inside. The flat contained a 2,1 million euro painting.
The woman who owned the flat moved to the south of France before the Second World War, but never returned. The apartment was discovered because the woman recently died at the age of 91. Experts were tasked to draw up an inventory of the woman's possessions and found her flat in Paris.
When they entered the apartment, one of the experts' eye fell onto the painting of a woman in a pink muslin evening dress. The tableau was by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini and the woman pictured on the canvas was his former muse. This muse's granddaughter is the woman who left her apartment unhabited for 70 years.
Such stories bring out the journalist in me. I hope that I discover a story like this one day.
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