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No one expected that a painting of this importance, which had disappeared for 100 years, would resurface,
said im Kinsky expert Claudia Moerth-Gasser prior to the auction Several points should be questioned more critically, as the provenance of the picture has not yet been completely clarified,
Monika Mayer, head of archives at the Belvedere museum, which houses Klimt's famous "Kiss," was quoted as saying by Austria's Profil magazine Conversely, however, no evidence has been found that the painting was not looted between 1938 and 1945,
it said in an online video for the auction What is known is that it was acquired by a legal predecessor of the consignor in the 1960s and went to the current owner through three successive inheritances.”