“It took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid earlier this month with a guide price of €1,500 ($1,800) could be worth millions. … Within two weeks, Spain’s culture ministry [acted] to impose an export ban. The painting was pulled from auction. Pulini, a painter himself as well as an authoritative art historian, told The Guardian about his identification of the painting and the ultimately doomed scramble to bring it back to Italy.” – The Guardian