Daily Mail

Madonna and the lost painting

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MADONNA has been asked by a city in France to loan them an artwork thought to be a masterpiec­e lost in the war.

The superstar, 6 , bought what is now thought to be Diana And Endymion by Jerome-Martin Langlois, pictured, for $1.3million (£1million) at a Sotheby’s auction in New York in 1989.

The painting was acquired by the French republic in 1873 and exhibited in Amiens but was lost when the city was bombed during the First World War in 1918. After a recent article suggested the painting, or one almost identical, reappeared in 1989 mayor Brigitte Foure issued her plea to Madonna in the hope she’ll lend it to them ahead of the city’s bid to become European capital of culture in 2028.

She told the pop star in a video: ‘Madonna, you probably haven’t heard of Amiens but there is a special link between you and our city.’

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