Yale Gallery Makes ‘Thrilling’ Discovery of Velazquez Painting
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Yale University, which saw its investments fall about 25 percent in the year ending in June 2009 as the economy tanked, happened upon an appreciating asset in a storage room underneath its art gallery: an oil painting it now attributes to 17th-century Spanish master Diego Velazquez.
“This is thrilling for us,” said Laurence Kanter, curator of European art at the Yale University Art Gallery, in a telephone interview. “This is one of the most important discoveries in the old-master field in decades.”