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Therrien never opened the gallery to the public but often hosted museum groups and curators, taking them to his adjacent apartment afterward and lingering over a long lunch of salad served from a giant bowl.

“Promoters have a really unique role in the music scene. They’re the curators, the trusted source,” Lay said.

"Their hearts must have sunk seeing this black flag against the whiteness of Antarctica," said David Waterhouse, curator of the polar museum at SPRI.

"The three works now exhibited in Bucharest were not documented, photographed, or shown during the artist's lifetime," said the art historian and curator, who co-authored the American Association of Museums guide to provenance research.

This sees experts such as Sian Iles, a curator at the National Museum of Wales, brought in to give their verdict on whether any potential item meets the threshold for treasure.