06 January 2024

Today's Strange Happy-Ending Mystery Feature: Discarded Art-on-The-Streets in Queens NY | Tribune News Service via South China Morning Post

The un-resoled kicker: the intricately patterned shawl wasn’t actually a shawl. The woman was pregnant, . . but didn’t want that to show, so a window curtain was draped over her. The identity of a wealthy Manhattan woman by the late artist Leonardo da Bianco, father of celebrity pizza chef Chris Bianco remains unknown
A painting of a wealthy Manhattan woman by the late artist Leonardo da Bianco, father of celebrity pizza chef Chris Bianco, leans against rubbish on a street in New York in April 2023. Photo: Instagram / @stoopinginqueens

. . .Still, a mystery endures. 
How did the portrait end up on the street in Queens? There are theories. Weiss wondered if the woman, or a family member, had lived in her building. But the woman and her children haven’t lived there or nearby, according to online public records. . .
“It’s one of the craziest f*****g things I’ve ever had happen to me, . . Probably the craziest.”
13 hours ago — Some 50 years later, the masterpiece is found on a New York street ... heartachefound abandoned amid rubbish on a New York street 53 years later.

Chef Chris Bianco's dad painted a masterpiece. What happened to it? - Los  Angeles Times
Dec 18, 2023 — A photograph showed the painting leaning against a brick building in the New York borough of Queens, beside a trash bag. Advertisement. “I ...
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