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Rare Art Treasure Found In Movie Stuart Little Missing Since 1928

Sleeping Lady with Black Vase is a 1927–1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It is a depiction of the painter's wife reclining asleep in a blue dress behind a table on which is set a black vase. The painting was sold in 1928 and was considered lost after World War II.

Art researcher Gergely Barki was watching the children’s film Stewart Little with his daughter Lola in 2009 when he thought he recognized one of the background ‘props’.

Upon closer inspection, he realized it was the missing masterpiece Sleeping Lady with Black Vase by 20th Century painter Robert Bereny.

Email to the film’s producers failed to produce any actionable leads for its recovery, but Barki persisted and contacted every crew member on the film for whom he could get an email address and was able to locate a set designer,

As Barki was soon to discover, the unnamed set designer had paid a mere $500 for the painting at an antique store. Now safely back in Hungary thanks to Barki’s efforts, the work is due to be sold at auction and carries a presale estimate of $240,000–$325,000.

After a long and tumultuous journey in which it changed hands several times, the painting was sold at auction for $285,700

Robert Bereny was a pinnacle figure in the early 20th-century art movement in Europe called the Group of Eights.

It is thought the Sleeping Lady with Black Vase was bought by a Jewish collector in Hungary in 1928, who then had to abandon it while fleeing the Nazis in the Second World War.