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Obscene Figure
Lost Art-ID
616721
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Egyptian)
Title
Obscene Figure
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Stone
Description
Probably hellenzized style, maybe late period
Provenance
Baron Bertalan Hatvany, Budapest; Lost during WWII; whereabouts unknown
It is unknown whether the loss during the Nazi persecution was caused by the German army, by the Soviet army, or by others.
Literature / Source
List of Art Treasures Removed by Germans from Hungary and not been returned by March, 1948. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r 51, No. 2; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, p. 213, No. 16555
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