Shortly before King Michael I abdicated the Romanian throne following the nation ... had amassed a large collection of art — including many works by El Greco — and in 1899, bequeathed ...

In the summer of 1944, Michael was 22 and coming into his own. The war was going badly for the Axis, which included Romania. Opponents of the Antonescu regime within Romania treated the king as a ...

A Christie's spokesperson told the Art Newspaper ... In 1947, its ownership was transferred to King Michael of Romania, and the painting remained in the country until 1976, when it entered ...