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This Painting of Lounging Lions Was Hanging In A Family’s Living Room. It Turned Out To Be An Original Delacroix

— By Andy Corbley | Mar 28, 2025

Up for auction today at a swanky Parisian auction house will be a slightly lazy paint sketch of some lions.

But these relaxed beasts are more than they appear. As it turns out, the work entitled Study of Reclining Lions was a lost creation from one of Paris’ greatest ever modern painters: Eugène Delacroix.

The man whose hand wielded the brush that gave the world Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix also painted these 7 lions in a swirl of brown and ochre savannah, but after a 1830 sale following his death, the work disappears from records.

It turned up during an appraisal at a home in France’s central region of Touraine conducted by Malo de Lussac.

“The owners were not sure that it was a Delacroix,” de Lussac tells Agence France-Presse. “When I arrived in the living room, my gaze was attracted by his magnetism. It was very moving. Delacroix’s works are seen very regularly in museums but very little in private hands.”

Sophia Anderson at the Smithsonian Magazine reports that Delacroix loved very much to observe the tigers and lions kept in the menagerie at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.

“How necessary it is to … stick one’s head out of doors and try to read from creation, which has nothing in common with cities and the works of man,” Delacroix once wrote, and Anderson shared.

Up for auction at Hôtel Drouot auctioneers, the estimate is between €200,000 and €300,000.

“Over the course of his career, Eugène Delacroix produced numerous studies of fauves [wild animals] either for their own sake or for inclusion in a scene with figures,” writes Lee Johnson in The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1816-1831. “In 1829, he considered a composition on this theme for the Salon, hesitating whether to paint lions or tigers at rest, in contrast to the academic subjects of fighting and hunting. He finally opted for the latter, and exhibited a Young Tiger Playing with its Mother.“

Klimt Painting of An African Prince Lost For Nearly 100 Years Goes On Show In Austria

— By Andy Corbley | Mar 25, 2025

Prince William NII Nortey Dowuona, 1897 – Credit Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Galleries.

A portrait of a stately West African leader painted by famed Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has reappeared in public after being lost before World War II.

Nearly a hundred years have passed since it was last seen, and is now exhibited at Wienerroither & Kohlbacher Gallery in Vienna, with a price tag of €15 million.

The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona—a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, comprising parts of modern-day Ghana, was painted by Klimt in 1897, sold by the artist’s estate in 1923, and lost by 1938.

An art historian who had been searching for the work for 2 decades verified its authenticity for W&K Galleries with the help of a well-faded stamp on the back of the canvas. A wealthy Austrian Jewish family who had converted Klimt’s studio into a villa acquired the painting in 1928 for an exhibition.

That was the last time and place it was seen, for by 1938, the Klein family had abandoned their property and fled the growing anti-semitism in their homeland to Monaco.

“The composition and painterly execution point to Klimt’s turn towards decorative elements, which were to characterize his later work, and are directly linked to his pioneering portraits of the following years,” said Alfred Weidinger, who authenticated the work, in press materials.

Prince Dowuona traveled to Vienna for a late-colonial sing-and-dance called the Völkerschau which exhibited ethnographic displays from colonized people around the world at an urban zoo. This is where a friend of Klimt’s first found the stately African leader, who was one of 120 Ga people who traveled via steamship to Austria for the Völkerschau, according to Art Net.

It’s believed that both Klimt and his friend Matsch painted Dowuona, but being that this work remained unsigned and in Europe, the client, whoever it was, probably selected the one painted by Matsch.

Klimt’s corpus includes many that have fetched 8-figure sums at auction houses, and one that sold for $108 million of an unknown woman holding a fan. There is currently no plan to auction this work.

Lost Rembrandt Found Tucked Away In Attic In Maine Sells For $1.4 Million During Bidding War

— By Andy Corbley | September 11, 2024

Kaja Veilleux auctioning the Rembrandt painting Portrait of a Girl – Credit Thomaston Auction Galleries

“Tucked away” in a home attic in Maine alongside a “collection of heirlooms and antiques” art appraisers found a lost Rembrandt portrait.

Depicting a teenage woman in 17th-century Dutch attire, it recently sold at auction for $1.4 million, delighting the handlers who know it will be preserved and shared with the art world in a manner befitting the Dutch master.

The sale was handled by New England’s Thomaston Place Auction Galleries and Appraisers, who were on a routine house call to Camden, Maine. Kaja Veilleux, the gallery’s founder and a seasoned appraiser, was the one who eventually pinned the portrait as something special.

“We often go in blind on house calls, not knowing what we’ll find,” Veilleux said.

Painted on an oak board, and set in a gold Dutch frame, Veilleux turned the work over and found a neat little tag from the Philidelphia Museum of Art with the word ‘Rembrandt’ on it. It also bore the name of the work, Portrait of a Girl.

Not something you see every day to be sure. While finding masterworks of all sorts hidden in attics and cellars is no strange phenomenon, they’re typically rediscovered in Europe. To find one in Maine was a real shock.

A bit of research uncovered that the work was loaned by a Mr. Cary W. Bok to the museum for an exhibition in 1970. How it ended up in Maine is a mystery.

“Not many painters paint like Rembrandt, for one thing, and one of the trademarks of the Rembrandt paintings and the Dutch masters is what I call a ‘ribbon candy collar,'” Mr. Veilleux, wearing a soft gold waistcoat as part of his auctioneer attire, told local news channel WMTW in a Nick Nolte-like gravelly voice as he gestured to the girl’s lace collar.

It’s the first time he’s auctioned a piece for more than $1 million. He said that most things sell in about 30 seconds, but the Rembrandt sale went on for 10 minutes, with 9 buyers engaging in a telephone bidding war that “could have brought anything.”

But it’s not about the money for Veilleux.

“To me, it’s about bringing this art to light so it’s protected, cared for, and preserved.”

While it hasn’t been authenticated, Veilleux seems convinced, and suggested that $1.4 million is, in fact, a bargain.

Painting Found In Italian Villa Basement Turns Out To Be Original Picasso

— By Andy Corbley | October 9, 2024

Credit, Andrea Lo Rosso, Provided to the Media

A painting that was found in a basement signed with the name “Picasso,” but that was dismissed, thrust into a cheap frame, hung in the family house, and then in a restaurant, has finally been recognized as an authentic piece by the Spanish artist.

The value is already estimated to be $6 million, but if recognized by the Pablo Picasso Foundation in Paris, it could be worth twice or thrice that much.

The painting is believed to be an asymmetrical image of Dora Maar, who was Picasso’s lover at a time when he spent a period on the Italian island of Capri, where in the 1950s, Luigi Lo Rosso, a local pawnbroker who used to comb dumps and abandoned houses for treasure, found it in the basement of an empty villa.

According to the story, reported stateside by CNN, Lo Rosso believed it to be authentic, but his wife was less impressed, and so Luigi stuck it in a frame and gave it to her as a present to her great chagrin.

Luigi’s son, Andrea, wasn’t even born at the time. He told CNN that his mother took the Picasso and another canvas covered in dust and lime her husband had found and washed them with detergent as if they were carpets.

In college, the younger Lo Rosso came upon another piece of Picasso’s depicting Dora Maar in an art history textbook, and learned he was in Capri at the time when it was made. Coming home, he told his mom they may have something special on their hands.

It took decades, but because Andrea went through the proper channels—namely treating it as if it were stolen and registering it with the patrimony police, more attention was given to it than the experts Andrea had first contracted were willing to offer.

Locked in a police vault in Milan until 2019, the quest for authentication of the work was concluded when Cinzia Altieri, a graphologist for a patrimony court in Milan, worked for several months to authenticate the Picasso signature in the corner—it was 100% real.

Andrea hasn’t stopped at Altieri’s examination, nor on the word of Luca Gentile Canal Marcante, an art expert and honorary president of the Swiss-based art restoration non-profit Arcadia Foundation, who also says it is doubtlessly authentic.

Andrea is seeking the approval of the Picasso Foundation in Paris—something his father always hoped might come to pass.

“I’m happy but let’s wait to toast, there is still one step to take before we consider this incredible story over,” Andrea Lo Rosso said.

“I continue to work as I do every day in the hope that even in Paris they will be convinced of the authenticity of the painting.”

Artwork Painted By Picasso Discovered In A Closet in Maine After A Half Century

— By Andy Corbley | Jul 12, 2021

John McInnis Auctioneers

While it sounds like the height of absurdity to say, one could never imagine how often it happens that paintings by art’s great masters are found in people’s attics.

In recent years, GNN has reported on a possible Da Vinci being found tucked away in a Scottish farmhouse. Then there was the case of a Fra Angelico Renaissance masterpiece being discovered in a modest house in the middle of England.

Now, a recent auction in Massachusetts featuring rare pieces of art collected from estates around the north-east has seen a previously unknown painting by Pablo Picasso being sold for $150,000.

Depicting Spanish well-to-dos attending the bull fighting arena, it is thought to be a preparatory sketch for a stage curtain as part of a 1919 Ballets Russes production (it’s still to be officially authenticated by the Picasso estate).

It was found tucked away with other paintings in the closet of a house belonging to a New England man’s recently deceased relative.

It would not be the first time a Picasso has turned up where one wouldn’t expect: A decade ago, GNN reported that hundreds of Picasso’s works, collected by a French electrician, had been received by a museum as a gift.

According to a statement by the anonymous seller on the auction house website, the Maine home in which the sketch work was found belonged to the man’s great aunt—she had studied in Europe, enjoyed bringing things back to the States, and generally lived an exciting life.

Then man came to own the house when his father inherited it after the great aunt passed away.

The 16×16 image on paper is believed to be a preliminary mock-up for the curtain that would act as the backdrop to Le Tricorne, which debuted at the Alhambra Theater in London after World War I.

The actual curtain which Picasso would later make is 20 feet by 19 feet, and is currently located in the New York Historical Society after spending 55 years on the wall in the Four Seasons restaurant. Picasso also designed the sets and the costumes for the play.

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I know this may not feel like much, but there are websites and apps that only broadcast positive and uplifting events. (goodnewsnetwork.org, positivenewsfoundation.org, positive.news, goodnews.eu (Also has an app. They support both German and English, it's what I personally use), Sam Bentley on YT)

There are many good things happening all the time, let's not overshadow them by only focusing on the bad. Don't lose hope, there's so much love in the world.

they should invent a 2025 where good things happen

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Many to none But in a good way! - 403

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cicadas-are-coming-rare-dual-emergence-could-awaken-a-trillion-bugs-of-2-species-first-time-in-221-yrs/Dozens of Strange 12-Sided Objects from Roman Times Have Been Found—No One Knows What They’re For (goodnewsnetwork.org)East Palo Alto goes from U.S. ‘murder capital’ to zero homicides – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)A Thrift Store Shopper Joked She’d Found a…

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by Andy Corbley | Some West Midlands cat lovers are planting roots of good merit through a beautiful and unique rescue operation. Shropshire Cat Rescue in Shrewsbury takes in homeless, stray, abandoned, and unwanted cats and kittens and organizes veterinary care for feral felines in the area...

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Hey! Back in November I spent a day in psychiatric emerg for exactly what you'd think. The social worker I ended up talking to gave me the advice of seeking out good news, because the things that get broadcast are always negative. So here are some examples I've found since:

Some large whale populations have rebounded from near extinction back to pre-whale hunt numbers.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has instated a new nature reserve. "[A] 540,000 km² green corridor safeguarding Earth's largest tropical carbon sink." (fixthenews.com)

Solar power has overtaken coal in Europe.

Scientists believe world pollution levels have peaked, which means its at it's worst now but won't get worse.

I got most these stories from fixthenews.com, and there are other sites such as goodnewsnetwork.org and the Good News section on The Daily Climate.

There are incredible things happening out there, but the mainstream news doesn't care about that part. Doom and gloom gets more clicks, after all.

I also want to recommend the book Hope Matters by Elin Kelsey. She particularly discusses how media is too focused on the negative parts, which only leaves people in a hopeless state where they don't feel like they should even bother trying to fix things. Instead, offering stories of hope make people more likely to pitch in to make the world better.

I know this is a long reply, but I hope it helps.

Gamers can you please use this post to share positive news about nature and our environment

Everyday I feel crushing sadness and defeat about the state of the world and need encouragement

Feel free to share simple helpful advice on how we can do better for the planet

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June 2020 BuJo Setup: Newspaper Collage Theme | New Spreads & My First Voiceover!

This month my theme is newspaper, which I had planned out at the beginning of the year. Funny how it turned out to be kind of topical! The newspaper I used for my collages was the Kansas City Star for Saturday May 23rd. I got my "good news" spread articles from the Good News Network at goodnewsnetwork.org. I spent a lot of time there choosing which articles to put in my journal. There are so many! I recommend checking it out if you need a pick-me-up.

If you like this month’s quote page collage and calendar, you can get that art as a postcard by signing up for my patreon at the Page tier or higher, at www.patreon.com/calicofiction!

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World’s First Hyperloop Pod is Finally Unveiled to Whisk Passengers Between Cities at 760mph

The world’s first hyperloop passenger pod has just been unveiled by a tech company based out of Toulouse, France.

The pod, which was designed by Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), would have the capability of traveling at speeds of 760 miles per hour, which is the equivalent of traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than half an hour.

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Pope Opens Free Laundromat For Rome's Poor

From Goodnewsnetwork.org:

Pope Francis has just opened an establishment for the homeless population of Rome can do their laundry for free.

“Pope Francis’ Laundry” opened its doors to the public on Monday. Six washing machines, dryers, and clothing irons were donated by Michigan-based appliance company Whirlpool, while the detergent and cleaners are being provided by Proctor and Gamble.

Located in the Trastevere neighborhood near the Vatican, officials say that they soon hope to also install showers and a barbershop within the facilities, making it a haven of free, valuable services to the poor people of Rome.

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Pope Opens Free Laundromat For Rome’s Poor was originally published on Emergency Broadcast System

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businessinsider.com/single-family-rental-homes-tricon-earnings-dry-powder-2022-11

nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-missile-tests-practice-attack-south-us-rcna55923 parstoday.com/en/news/world-i188494-us_military_nuclear_commander_warns_america_is_falling_behind_china businessinsider.com/us-officials-ask-banks-keep-working-some-russian-firms-report-2022-11 dallasexpress.com/national/pentagon-concerned-over-threats-by-iran/ bizpacreview.com/2022/11/09/from-blackface-to-womanface-justin-trudeau-gets-thrashed-for-appearing-on-drag-race-tv-show-1306564/

Links:

ukrainecrisis.org/article/major-conflict-with-china-is-coming-outgoing-strategic-command-chief-warns/

wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/30/the-world-is-transitioning-to-fossil-fuels/

nowtheendbegins.com/arnie-szoke-receives-bank-card-microchip-implant-back-right-hand-from-biotech-company-walletmor/

goodnewsnetwork.org/engineers-build-efficient-chip-so-fast-it-can-transmit-all-internets-traffic-in-under-a-second/

dailysceptic.org/2022/10/27/massive-increase-in-greenland-surface-ice-sheet-suggests-possible-overall-gain-in-2022/

newsbreak.com/news/2819819646888/watch-giant-fiery-object-travels-across-midwestern-sky-remains-mystery?noAds=1&_f=app_share&s=i3

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Week 11 and Reflections

After showing my image to my group, Bella helped me make a slightly nicer looking one. Thanks Bella!

Now that I had this image I was ready to start putting it all together on our website. Our website itself is called ‘Eudaemonia’. It is a Greek word meaning happiness and good spirit, which is very appropriate for our concept. Our website was made using Wix, so it was pretty cool seeing your work on an actual functioning website.

The image above shows The Happy Button being advertised on our homepage. I then had to write up some specs for my product as well as a fun little description.

To summarise the idea of The Happy Button, one click and you’re read a positive title to an article, two more clicks and the article will be read to you. There are tiny speakers built in to the keyring, and it uses a Bluetooth connection to your phone to source the good news. I like the idea that it is partnered with goodnewsnetwork.org for this.

I made one more image of my keychain for this page, but it’s honestly so so cool to see my product on a real looking website. The only thing I would change, is if I had the time, I’d love to learn photoshop to design my keyring. While I was very pleased with the clay one I made, it wasn’t exactly the cleanest looking, just thanks to the nature of the material, and because I did the whole thing by hand. It was just a case of using the skills I did have, but I do feel that could make the whole thing look more professional. Another reason for this is because I had to photograph it, a lot of the lighting looked very dark, so I had to turn up the saturation, which had maybe made my background look a little strange.

I am still very satisfied with the work I have completed on this project. I love The Happy Button, and kind of wish it was a real thing, as I’d love to own one. I think the product worked well with the others in my group, and together we really have made our own cool little fantasy tech company. The reason I made The Happy Button is that, as someone who suffers mental health issues, sometimes you just need to hear something good. I know that sometimes the bad news feels inescapable, especially with global warming, the pandemic, the ongoing fight for racial and gender equality etc. and I quite often find myself asking my partner to ‘tell me something good’. More so recently, as a good friend of mine passed away while I was working on this project. I know that the world can look really dark, so maybe it’d be nice to just have a tiny bit of positivity in your pocket for when you need it.

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Second Health Clinic by Michael Jordan in North Carolina

One year after the first Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinic opened its doors in Charlotte, North Carolina, the basketball great and his partner Novant Health have opened second health clinic. The second health clinic by Michael Jordan will support the North End community with the same aim of providing critical access to primary and preventive care to those who are uninsured or underinsured.

The new one also incorporates behavioural health and social care programmes, solving health equality disparities further worsened by COVID-19, including the initial medical clinic in western Charlotte, which was founded with a generous $7 million grant from Michael Jordan.

“The commitment of Michael Jordan to improving the health clinic of our communities and society is profoundly rooted,” said Carl Armato, Novant Health’s CEO and president. “The effect of the first clinic has been measurable, and if COVID-19 has taught us anything, in communities that need it most, it is important to provide affordable, secure, and reliable treatment,” he added.”

When we came together to mark the launch of the first clinic last fall, no one could have expected that we will be facing a worldwide pandemic just five months later, “Jordan said on a Zoom call.” I’m so proud of the positive effect our clinic, especially during COVID-19, has had on the community so far.

Over 3350 patients, including more than 450 children, were seen at the clinic on Freedom Drive in its first year. Among this, nearly 700 patients were assisted by a full-time social worker at the facility, with nearly 80 patients seeking direct behavioural health care.

Source: Goodnewsnetwork.org

Also Read: How much does health insurance cost per month?

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Good News

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.8ceY2QNtcahXW8SWdlxpOQHaHa?w=195&h=195&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7 https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/steve-chu-cooking-family-photo-Brandon-Jones.jpg Chef Drives 6 Hours to Vermont to Cook Her Favorite Meal—Soothing a Customer In Her Final Days (goodnewsnetwork.org)

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When 3-year-old Waylon Saunders arrived at the hospital, he was already legally dead and had been for a while. Found face-down in an icy backyard swimming pool, the Ontario toddler’s body temperature was so low that paramedics’ thermometers couldn’t get a reading, and he had no pulse...

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Week 9

This week my group met together to discuss what we each wanted to do for our prototypes. We built a little map of our key ideas, and discussed what would be the best thing to help our ideas stay tied in together. We thought it would be best if we focussed around tech products so then we could do a tech company website or something like that to present.

I pitched my ‘smart room’ idea to my group and they all agreed it was pretty cool so I have been continuing to work on that. I decided that the smart room would have four main features: a button to call a councillor or friend, a schedule that is programmed to give a break from work, a random activity button for when you’re just bored or need a distraction, and a good news button, that tells you good news. My group really liked that last feature in particular. In my research I found that there’s actually a website called goodnewsnetwork.org that is just a news website about positivity, daily affirmations, and fun facts. This could be an awesome resource for my idea. Maybe it could be that my smart room uses goodnewsnetwork.org as a source of information? I designed the smart room to be a screen mounted to your wall. I’m pretty happy with this idea overall. The plan is for us to meet together next week to fine tune our ideas before building our cool looking prototypes.

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Now For Some Good News

Here is a welcome story posted yesterday on the website called GoodNewsNetwork.org:

Ten Positive Updates on COVID-19 By McKinley Corbley GoodNewsNetwork.org March 17, 2020 If it seems that your news feed has been flooded with nerve-wracking updates on the COVID-19 outbreaks, have no fear—there are also plenty of positive updates on the pandemic as well. Here is a list of 10 hopeful headlines on the…