The Gallery

Each exhibit is a window into what was lost — reconstructed through AI-assisted research and presented with the care of a museum placard.

140 exhibits in the collection

The Wounded Table (Frida Kahlo) — exhibit imageArt

The Wounded Table (Frida Kahlo)

Frida Kahlo

Kahlo's largest painting, a monumental work depicting the artist seated at a long table flanked by a skeleton, a Judas figure, pre-Columbian idols, a deer, and her niece and nephew. Last exhibited in Warsaw in 1955 and subsequently lost.

Reconstruction Confidence50%

Lost c. 1955

Girl with Balloon (Banksy, partially shredded) — exhibit imageArt

Girl with Balloon (Banksy, partially shredded)

Banksy

A spray-paint and acrylic work by anonymous street artist Banksy, depicting a girl reaching for a heart-shaped red balloon. The artwork famously self-destructed moments after being sold at Sotheby's auction for £1.04 million, passing through a hidden shredder built into the frame.

Reconstruction Confidence95%

Lost 5 October 2018

Suprematist Composition (Malevich, stolen 2003) — exhibit imageArt

Suprematist Composition (Malevich, stolen 2003)

Kazimir Malevich

A 1916 Suprematist painting by Kazimir Malevich featuring geometric shapes in primary colours on a white ground. Part of the Stedelijk Museum's important Malevich collection, it was sold under disputed circumstances in 2003.

Reconstruction Confidence80%

Lost 2008

The Painter on the Road to Tarascon (Van Gogh) — exhibit imageArt

The Painter on the Road to Tarascon (Van Gogh)

Vincent van Gogh

A self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh showing himself walking along a sunlit road near Arles, carrying his painting equipment. The painting was a vivid expression of van Gogh's identification with the working painter under the Provençal sun.

Reconstruction Confidence75%

Lost 1945

Portrait of Francis Bacon (Lucian Freud) — exhibit imageArt

Portrait of Francis Bacon (Lucian Freud)

Lucian Freud

A small oil painting by Lucian Freud depicting his friend and fellow painter Francis Bacon, stolen from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 1988. One of two known portraits Freud painted of Bacon, and a key document of their intense artistic friendship.

Reconstruction Confidence80%

Lost 1988

Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland) — exhibit imageArt

Portrait of Winston Churchill (Sutherland)

Graham Sutherland

A full-length portrait of Winston Churchill commissioned by both Houses of Parliament and presented to Churchill on his 80th birthday in 1954. Churchill loathed the painting, and it was secretly destroyed on his wife Clementine's orders.

Reconstruction Confidence90%

Lost c. 1955–1956

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio) — exhibit imageArt

Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (Caravaggio)

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

A large altarpiece by Caravaggio for the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, depicting the Nativity scene with Saints Francis and Lawrence. Stolen in 1969, it is one of the most valuable missing artworks in the world, valued at an estimated $20 million at the time of theft.

Reconstruction Confidence55%

Lost October 1969

Madonna with Four Saints (Giovanni Bellini) — exhibit imageArt

Madonna with Four Saints (Giovanni Bellini)

Giovanni Bellini

A large sacra conversazione by Giovanni Bellini from the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, later held in Berlin. One of Bellini's most important late altarpieces, destroyed in the Friedrichshain flak tower fire in 1945 alongside hundreds of other masterworks.

Reconstruction Confidence70%

Lost May 1945

The Death of St. Peter Martyr (Titian) — exhibit imageArt

The Death of St. Peter Martyr (Titian)

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

An altarpiece by Titian for the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, considered by contemporaries to be his supreme masterpiece. The painting depicted the assassination of the Dominican inquisitor Peter of Verona in a forest, combining dramatic violence with sublime landscape.

Reconstruction Confidence75%

Lost 16 August 1867

The Stone Breakers — exhibit imageArt

The Stone Breakers

Gustave Courbet

A large oil painting by Gustave Courbet depicting two labourers — one old, one young — breaking rocks on a roadside. Considered a founding work of the Realist movement and one of the most socially radical paintings of the 19th century.

Reconstruction Confidence85%

Lost February 1945

The Just Judges (Ghent Altarpiece panel) — exhibit imageArt

The Just Judges (Ghent Altarpiece panel)

Jan van Eyck (and possibly Hubert van Eyck)

The lower-left panel of the Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck, depicting a procession of judges and rulers on horseback riding toward the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Stolen from Saint Bavo's Cathedral in 1934 and never recovered.

Reconstruction Confidence40%

Lost 1934

Jurisprudence (Klimt University Painting) — exhibit imageArt

Jurisprudence (Klimt University Painting)

Gustav Klimt

The third and most radical of Klimt's University of Vienna ceiling paintings. Rather than celebrating the triumph of law, Jurisprudence depicted a frail old man ensnared by a monstrous octopus symbolising the legal system, surrounded by the Furies. It was Klimt's darkest and most confrontational work.

Reconstruction Confidence60%

Lost May 1945

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