The Discovery of Two Lost Masterpieces

By November 1942, the last remaining Parisian Jews in Occupied Paris had been rounded up, corralled into a stadium, and shipped by railcar to Auschwitz, never to be heard from again. In southern France, the last bastion of free French people had been absorbed into the German Reich. The Great Republic of France had fallen, while on the outskirts of Stalingrad the German Army was at its peak power as the coldest winter in a century rolled in on the continent of Europe.In Paris Picasso...
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By November 1942, the last remaining Parisian Jews in Occupied Paris had been rounded up, corralled into a stadium, and shipped by railcar to Auschwitz, never to be heard from again. In southern France, the last bastion of free French people had been absorbed into the German Reich. The Great Republic of France had fallen, while on the outskirts of Stalingrad the German Army was at its peak power as the coldest winter in a century rolled in on the continent of Europe.In Paris Picasso was watched by the Gestapo under direct orders from the Fuhrer. Yet, in an act of bold defiance, he purposely defaced a Vichy 10 Franc banknote to protest the Vichy collaboration with the Nazis. In doing so, Picasso crafted an incredible multi-layered masterpiece to remind his fellow Parisians of Peace, to give them hope, and to show them real courage in the face of tyranny.This is the story of 'The Lost Dove', an incredibly rare masterpiece created by the hand of Pablo Picasso during the last week of November 1942, a work that was until recently, lost to history...