A damaged portrait of Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin that was bought at a flea market in Poland. Photo / APA damaged portrait of Polish composer and pianist Frederic Chopin that was bought at a flea market in Poland. Photo / APA peeling portrait of Frederic Chopin purchased at a flea market in Poland hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades before an expert dated the painting to the 19th century, when the Polish piano composer lived. An art connoisseur spotted the portrait that Markowski calls "a real curiosity" at a flea market near Lublin in the early 1990s. A member of the family says it's "extraordinary" that the painting survived about 170 years of historic turmoil and ended up in a flea market.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 09, 2021 21:11 UTC