No Small Emotion

For five weeks, experts examined it.

January 14, 2020. In Piacenza, the prosecutor Ornella Chicca stands before the press and gives the answer.

“It's with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic.”

After 22 years, Klimt's Portrait of a Lady was back. It had turned up in the gallery's own wall.

But nobody could say who had put it there, or why.