The Romanian government is suing Christie’s auction house and a Russian billionaire to halt the sale of a painting by El Greco that it claims was stolen by the last king of Romania over 70 years ...
Christie’s was set this month to sell El Greco’s painting Saint Sébastien, which was painted between 1610 and 1614, but pulled the piece after the Romanian government tried to stake a claim ...
Nine monumental paintings by El Greco once decorated monastery walls ... Virgin Mary ascending to heaven on a crescent moon over Jesus Christ’s open tomb. Another piece, titled The Trinity ...