From the Dec. 20, 2015, Chicago Tribune by Monika Scislowska, AP.
It is the bust of goddess Diana looted by the Nazis in 1940 and returned to Waesaw after recently surfacing in a Vienna auction. french sculptor master Jean-Antoine Houdon made it and it is valued at $270,000. This is the latest development in Poland's long effort to retrieve tens of thousands of works of art looted from museums and private collections during World War II.
Poland has a list of 63,000 missing works of art.
The white marble bust was returned to Warsaw's Lazienki Palace following months of effort by the Polish government and the Art recovery Group Ltd.
Poland's last king, Stanislaw August Poniatowski bought it in the late 18th century.
It was first looted from the palace by Bolshevik troops during World War I, but returned when Polish troops enter Russia in 1920. It vanished again in 1940 during the German occupation of Poland.
Seven other looted works of art were returned to Poland in 2015.
--GreGen
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