"Acting on an alert from international police agency Interpol, Argentinian police conducted a raid on a seaside villa south of Buenos Aires on Tuesday, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. They found German documents and prints from the 1940s that are potentially relevant, but not the portrait of Countess Colleoni. "The painting is gone. Only a carbine and a .32-caliber revolver were seized," the prosecutor told reporters."
"The search for the artwork was renewed when reporters from a Dutch newspaper spotted it in a real estate advertisement for a home believed to be owned by descendants of the Nazi fugitive Friedrich Kadgien. The newspaper reported that the original painting appeared to be hanging above a velvet sofa in the living room of a cabin in the Argentinian city of Mar del Plata."
Argentinian authorities searched a seaside villa for an 18th-century portrait believed looted by a fugitive Nazi officer eight decades ago. The search was prompted after the portrait appeared in a real estate advertisement for a property in Mar del Plata. Police acted on an Interpol alert and raided the villa south of Buenos Aires, seizing German documents and 1940s-era prints, a carbine, and a .32-caliber revolver. The painting, titled Portrait of a Lady by Guiseppe Vittore Ghislandi, was not recovered. The artwork was taken from Jewish collector Jacques Goudstikker and later possessed by Friedrich Kadgien, who settled in Argentina after World War II. Experts noted the image in the advertisement closely resembles the original, although the canvas was not physically examined.
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